what's actually shaping up and that really is the case here it is a blame game iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps the naval public affairs office issuing a flat denial that there was any sort of encounter in the past 24 hours between their vessels and a vessel of a foreign country and foreign minister just odds are if being reported on state t.v. as it did 9 this allegation as well saying that it is an attempt by the united states and the united kingdom to inflame tensions even further we have to keep in mind that just a little over a month ago and 2 months ago when washington and their allies in the region blamed iran for attacks on oil tankers in and around the waters of this region attack iran denied that allegation and instead blamed the united states for running false flag operations in collaboration with their allies in this part of the world so it is a very black and white narrative on both sides leaving very little room for either party for any sort of dialogue this incident of course comes a day after french the french president's top diplomat his envoy visited iran emanuel been trying t

bolton: islamic revolutionary guards corps is starting to have to cut salaries and support for proxies across the region, leaving them to lament that the golden days are gone and will never return. [applause] mr. bolton: and we are just getting started. in november we finished reinforcing the crippling sanctions that originally brought tehran to the negotiating table. but we did not stop there. the president's goal is to get a new deal that would ne be negotiated in the best interests of the united states. we have designated the irgc as a foreign terrorist organization. [applause] mr. bolton: this is the first time an element of a home government has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization. it will make it harder for anyone affiliated with the irgc to enter our great country. it also makes it a crime for individuals, companies, or institutions to do business with this vile terrorist group. [applause] on the anniversary of president trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal, all of the waivers that had been granted on iranian oil sales have gone to zero. this -- [applaus

not in the shape perhaps the british have suggested the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even there is a different narrative here is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to seize or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders the u.n. human rights council has agreed to set of a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders joining the philippine so-called war on drugs the resolution brought by iceland has faced strong pushback from present government human rights watch estimates at least 12000 filipinos have been killed since detainees campaign began in 2016. sitters from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented me they sent a letter to the human rights council calling for the detention of we can muslims to stop. francis passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u.s. says

it was the 1st time that he seemed to link the seizure of a ship by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps less than a week ago to the seizing injure brawl tour of the grace one in iranian oil tanker and president hassan rouhani said that he believes in international law he believes in dialogue as long as it's fair and it's legal and he said that european nations should do the same and if the u.k. was to stop its wrong actions in gibraltar it should expect a receiving a proportionate response from iran now does this perhaps suggest that releasing their vessel will prompt iran to release the british flag vessel well iran continues to say that its seizure of the vessel was illegal that it wandered into iran's territorial waters iran has always said that it is the sole protector or one of the main protectors i should say of the strait of hormuz and of vessels passing through it but during his cabinet meeting president hasan rouhani also mentioned a waterway in the southwest tip of the arabian peninsula the. now this is a waterway between saudi arabia.

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran and hated news sea voyages news agency is reporting that the united states. not impose sanctions on iran's foreign minister java zarif last month the treasury secretary had said he would be blacklisted and other world news sudan's transitional military council says it's foiled an attempted coup the council says it was carried out by a group of serving and retired officers and that 16 people are being held they've been told that a power sharing agreement with the forces of freedom and change would be signed on thursday that did not happen earlier local one we are known for this failed coup attempt which was planned for this sensitive time ahead of the reached political

february we also sanctioned new horizon for holding international conferences supporting islamic revolutionary guard corps quds force is. is that they were recruiting, gathering intelligence and propagating at the semitism and holocaust denial. i am pleased to join you here today to discuss this important work of combating anti-semitism. all of us have the tools to defeat it. it is up to us in this room and the wider audiences we collectively reached to fight for safety, equality and justice for the jewish people. i am honored to be here with you today. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much for your remarks, secretary mnuchin. i will now introduce director wray. christopher wray became the eighth director of the fbi on august 2, 2017. his decade of doj service has included positions as an assistant u.s. attorney, runcible associate deputy attorney general, an assistant attorney general of the criminal division where he supervised the sections that later became the national security division. as head of the fbi his duties include overseeing federal hate crime and terrorism investigation. und

in a statement to the united states central command said where aware of reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps navy's harassment and attempts to interfere with the passage of the u.k. flagged vessel british heritage today near the strait of hormuz we refer you to the u.k. ministry of defense for further information on this. this comes as u.s. president donald trump issued another threat to iran over its nuclear program he tweeted iran has long been secretly enriching in total violation of the terrible $150000000000.00 deal made by john kerry and the obama administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially but it was only an earlier this week that terror on announced it would be exceeding the limits on uranium enrichment set out under that 2015 nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year has more from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic adviser walk the line between american economic pres

revolutionary guards are also saying about this version of events what are they saying. well the you know this this the optics here are certainly a problem for the islamic revolutionary guard corps which has flatly denied that this incident took place the optics are a problem for the foreign ministry that has denied that this incident took place but it is familiar to the way that the united states and the u.k. have described what played out in these waters is a familiar maneuver a swarming maneuver that iran's naval forces in that region are said to use often but it also has to be said this kind of activity or interaction with small fast boats is also not uncommon iran has been accused in the past of harassing other vessels of of harassing american warships and so this is relatively a familiar scenario of course takes on a very heightened tension presently but the fact is that iranian officials here are simply denying that anything happened the public affairs office of the i.r.g.c. the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces said that no encounter with foreign vessels occurred in the past 24 hours but they left the door open to to a possibility of having to seize or stop

in a statement the united states central command said we are aware of the reports of islamic revolutionary guard corps navies harris meant an attempt to interfere with the passage of the u.k. flag merchant vessel british harris. today near the strait of hormuz we refer you to the u.k. ministry of defense for further information it's always coming at the same time as the us president don't want trump issued another threat to iran over its nuclear program he tweeted this iran has long been secretly enriching in total violation of the terrible 150000000000 dollar deal made by john kerry and the obama administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially course it was only earlier this week tehran announced it would be exceeding the limit of iranian enrichment set out under the nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year so miserably has this report from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic adviser walk

we designated the islamic revolutionary guards corps foreign terrorist organization. no other element of a foreign government has ever earned such a dubious distinction. what it means in practice is we are watching very closely for any individual company or institution that chooses to do business with the irg see and anyone associated with it will find it difficult to get into the u.s. following the withdrawal the president trump reintroduced sanctions from iran being able to reach their objective of nuclear weapons. the sanctions are crushing their economy, devaluing their currency and depleting their natural reserves. they have tried every trick to smuggle oil to other nations in exchange for cash. when that did not work out they turned to other industrial products and we sanctioned those as well. iran's behavior has only grown worse. not only does the regime continue to pursue nuclear weapons, it has increased its support for terrorism such as aiding those in yemen and ramped up conventional military activity in syria and iraq. the irgc has become more aggressive,

in the shape perhaps that the british have suggested the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even that there is a different narrative here it is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to seize or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders. the human rights council has agreed to set up a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders during the philippine so-called war on drugs the resolution brought by iceland has faced strong pushback from president rodrigo detect his government human rights watch estimates at least 12000 filipinos have been killed since the tatars campaign began in 2016 and the bastards from 22 nations have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move they sent a letter to the human rights council calling for the detention of weaker muslims to stop. at least 8 people have died today a car bombing in n

it was the hardline newspaper of the islamic revolutionary guard corps. they don't write nice things about the united states. in this case they showed a stunning achievement by nasa. children and young people in this country were able to see a great story about nasa and our international partners. that being said, we need to think about the future. one of the stunning achievements we can do that ultimately people will be celebrating 50 years afterwards. i talked to the president a few short weeks ago, he said very clearly i know you have to go to the moon to get to mars, mars is that generational achievement that will capture the imagination of the american people. he is absolutely right. we will talk about why we go to the moon. it is the proving ground for the mission to mars. the challenge is it is ending. it is not sustainable. when we go to the moon we are driving commercial opportunities into it. , were driving reusability are learning from apollo what not to do. we needed all to be reusable. we need to drive down the cost and keep our eyes on the h

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. and meanwhile royce's news agency is reporting that the united states. will not impose sanctions on iranian foreign minister zarif last month treasury secretary steve had said zarif would be blacklisted that week sources now tell roy says the decision could be a hint that washington wants to keep the door open to diplomacy with iran now mediators from the african union say there's been a breakthrough in talks between sudan's ruling military council and a coalition of pro-democracy groups it says they've agreed the political aspect of the country's transition from 30 years of dictatorship. at the volga to negotiating delegations from the forces of declaration for free

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran and meanwhile reuters news agency is reporting that the united states will. not impose sanctions on iranian foreign minister zarif last month treasury treasury secretary steve had said zarif would be blacklisted that week sources now tell royce's the decision could be a hint that washington wants to keep the door open to diplomacy with iran moving on to other news now and sudan's transitional military council says it's for oil and attempted coup the council says it was carried out by a group of serving and retired officers and that 16 people are being held there had been a hope that a power sharing agreement with the forces of freedom and change would be signed on thu

heard from the islamic revolutionary guard corps earlier today saying that there in the last 24 hours they bear no such encounter the foreign minister said as much and really what we're seeing here is competing narratives and in so far as the united states trying to paint iran with this brush of iran being a threat to international waterways iran being the problem in terms of shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz you know again this is another competing narrative iranian officials that we've spoken to about this in the past have told us that iran has been responsible and a caretaker of the strait of hormuz of those international shipping lanes in its territorial waterways since before the united states was a country many of the iranian government officials we've spoken to hark back to the time of the persian empire when they fought a war in the 1500s with the portuguese navy and they say ever since then it's been an international fact that iran is in control and is the guardian of the strait of hormuz and as such it is not just there to protect its own territorial waters but also tho

denying that anything happened we had a statement from the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval office that said there has been no encounter with any foreign vessel and iranian naval vessels in the last 24 hours president the foreign ministry spokesman jim raef also issued a complete denial saying that this was simply the u.s. and the u.k. trying to elevate tensions in the region we also have to point out that when tankers were attacked in may and june oil tankers came under attack washington blame to her on to her own denied it it was a foreign ministry as well as other government officials that said it was a u.s. run a false flag operation for the united states be able to pursue its agendas in the region this is in reference to the oil tanker attacks in may and june so certainly a great deal of competing narratives happening yet again from this latest incident and the other pushback we're likely to see from iran in coming days is its role in these waterways its role in this part of the middle east iranian officials have told us in the past that as far as they're concerne

it was the 1st time that he seemed to link the seizure of a ship by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps less than a week ago to the seizing injured brawl tour of the grace one iranian oil tanker and president hassan rouhani said that he believes in international law he believes in dialogue as long as it's fair and it's legal and he said that european nations should do the same and if the u.k. was to stop its wrong actions in gibraltar it should expect receiving a proportionate response from iran now does this perhaps suggest that releasing their vessel will prompt iran to release the british flag vessel well iran continues to say that its seizure of the vessel was illegal that it wandered into iran's territorial waters iran has always said that it is the sole protector or one of the main protectors i should say of the strait of hormuz and the vessels passing through it but during his cabinet meeting president hasan rouhani also mentioned a waterway in the southwest tip of the arabian peninsula. now this is a waterway between saudi arabia yemen and north africa and he said that iran is a

denial that anything like this happened at all the public affairs department of the islamic revolutionary guard corps navy issued a statement in which it said no encounter with foreign vessels occurred in the past 24 hours so really puts into question what's going on one iranian expert i spoke to recently said that if you want to find out exactly what's happening in these waterways you have to take a boat yourself or fly a drone or fly an aircraft and go see and really that's the issue at heart is that these are competing narratives that keep coming up in may and june of this year when washington accused iran of carrying out tanker attacks or oil tanker attacks on vessels in and around the gulf waters iran of course flatly denied that as well but accused the united states instead of what it called false flag operations carried out by the u.s. and its allies in the region to heighten tensions between teheran and the wider global community and of course this comes down to the. of oil iran wants a unilateral u.s. sanctions lifted it wants to sell oil on the market european countries including the united

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. thank you and the u.n. human rights council has agreed to set up a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders in the philippine government's war on drugs it accuses president. of inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women generally and into gun reports from manila . it's scenes like these that have prompted international action more than 6000 people killed in the 3 years since president rodrigo the terror to launched his so-called war on drugs those are the government's own figures the dead all suspected drug dealers it says but why it's groups say the actual number could be 5 times that

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. and in related news at the voices news agencies reporting that the. united states will not impose sanctions on iran in foreign minister jobs of reef last month the treasury secretary had said he would be blacklisted sources tell reuters the decision would be a hint that washington wants to keep the door open to diplomacy with iran in other world news sudan's transitional military council says it's foiled an attempted coup by army offices leaders of the council announced a coup attempt on sudanese television had been hoped that an agreement with the forces for freedom and change to ship power would be signed on thursday but that didn't happen. the early local one we a

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. and the reuters news agency is reporting that the united states will not impose sanctions on iran's foreign minister jobs every month the treasury secretary had said he would be blacklisted that week in other world news sudan's transitional military council says it's foiled an attempted coup by army offices leaders of the council announced a coup attempt on sudanese television 16 people are being held they have been hope that a power sharing agreement with the forces of freedom and change would be signed on thursday but that didn't happen earlier local one we are known for this failed coup attempt which was planned for this sensitive time ahead of the reached politic

denied reports that that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. a 13 year old suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in a gun stand killing 5 people and during dozens more the attack happened in the eastern province of manga no group has claimed responsibility. still ahead on the bulletin oysters die in the stripper move and we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins and you know dying extreme weather pushes the mississippi river to record levels taking a.

we are aware of the reports of islamic revolutionary guard corps navy's f.e.c. f.i.a. see how rassmann it and attempts to interfere with the passage of the u.k. flag merchant vessel british heritage today near the straits of hormuz we refer you to the u.k. ministry of defense for further information on this while this all comes as u.s. president donald trump issued another threat to iran over its nuclear program he tweeted iran has long been secretly enriching in total violation of the terrible $150000000000.00 deal made by john kerry in the obama administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially when it was only earlier this week that tehran announced that it would be exceeding the limits on uranium enrichment set out under that 2050 nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year he has more from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic adviser walk the line between am

in the shape perhaps that the british have suggested the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even that there is a different narrative here it is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to seize or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders and messages from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move they sent a letter to the u.n. human rights council calling for the detention of week of muslims to stop france has passed a controversial tax bill again flash tech firms which the u.s. says unfairly targets american companies the tax is the furthest from a major economy to be imposed on companies such as google or apple facebook and amazon. the un human rights council has voted to set up a preliminary investigation into. the philippine so-called war on drugs the resolution has faced strong pushback from president. government at least

will no doubt ask away tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. meanwhile most news agency is reporting the united states won't impose sanctions on iran's foreign minister last month u.s. treasury secretary steve minutes and said mohamed job and zarif would be blacklisted sources have told reuters that the decision not to go ahead with that could be a sign that washington wants to keep the door open to diplomacy with iran. a 13 year old suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in advanced on killing 5 people and injuring dozens more the attack happened in the eastern province of no group has claimed responsibility. still ahead on the bulletin how a decade to argentina so-called war ends experts are still working to identi

commander in islam a revolutionary guard corps commander suggested that iran's government carry out a tit for tat kind of action and this really would feed in to that narrative but the fact of the matter is that our brands government and military have flatly denied any encounter with any foreign vessel in the last 24 hours the public affairs to division of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces said it simply did not happen iran's foreign minister zarif said the same thing nothing of this sort happened and any suggestion that it would have it is an effort by the u.k. and the u.s. to escalate tensions with iran further and looking at that denial we see a real competition of narratives here and the united states a few months ago suggested that it was teheran that was behind the attacks on oil tankers in may in june of this year iran of course denied that and said it was a u.s. run false flag operation to enable the united states to pursue and to iran agenda in the region so as long as we see these escalating tensions we see these competing narratives it's difficult to see ho

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. now the roche's news agency is reporting that the united states won't impose sanctions on iran's foreign minister last month the u.s. treasury secretary steve said mamma jobs or if would be blacklisted but sources have told reuters that the decision not to go ahead with that could be a sign that washington wants to keep the door to diplomacy with iran now in the u.s. president donald trump has approved federal resources to louisiana after hurricane warnings were issued along the coast parts of new orleans is still under water after days of thunder storms and floods residents of putting sandbags outside their properties all leaving town hurrican barry is expected to m

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran $130.00 at the institute of maritime law at the university of southampton and joins me now by skype from i could have you with us on the program iran and oman have an obligation apparently to protect and police the straits of hormuz where is that based in terms of the legality of who looks after the strait of hormuz and who polices it. well it's not so much a question of looking at the structure or closing it as such per what we're dealing with a regime of transit passage and a part 3 of the united nations convention on the last city and the distinguishing feature of that which is superimposed on the ordinary rules. as age in the territorial city is there at the littl

in the shape perhaps that the british have suggested the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps mabel forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even though there is a different narrative here it is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to see us or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders and messages from 22 countries have condemned china's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in an unprecedented move they sent a letter to the un human rights council calling for the detention of weak and muslims to stop. at least 10 people have died in a train collision in northeast pakistan a passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train and ahead. in the southern punjab region dozens of injured people are being treated in nearby hospitals. at least 5 people have died after a car bomb exploded in northwest every year another 10 people including women and children were injured in the blast the explosion happened near the city of a fleei

that meeting it was the 1st time that he seemed to link the seizure of a ship by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps less than a week ago to the seizing injure brawl to her of the grace one an iranian oil tanker and president hassan rouhani said that he believes in international law he believes in dialogue as long as it's fair and it's legal and he said that european nations should do the same and if the u.k. was to stop its wrong actions in gibraltar it should expect a receiving a proportionate response from iran now does this perhaps suggest that releasing their vessel will prompt iran to release the british flag vessel well iran continues to say that its seizure of the vessel was illegal that it wandered into iran's territorial waters so perhaps not but it certainly is a tip of the hat in that direction so to speak the other 1st point that he made was with regards to waterways in and around it's part of the middle east iran has always said that it is the sole protector or one of the main protectors i should say of the strait of hormuz and the vessels passing through it but during his cabinet meet

the supreme leader, who is charge of the islamic revolutionary guards corps. 't call it iranian revolutionary guards, it's islamic. it's not as all clear. when japanese prime minister abe went over a couple months ago to meet with the supreme leader, right after that trip the supreme leader tweeted out, i refuse to talk to the americans. that undermined prime minister abe, didn't make him look good obviously. this isn't like north korea where president trump has a person to deal with. the person he wants to deal with is in a strong position. >> let's move onto the uk. boris johnson. there is a picture "new york times" used online this weekend of boris johnson that i thought was donald trump. i guess that was by design. i guess subliminaly because so many people drew comparisons between boris johnson and donald trump, their claims, xenophobic remarks. what's going to happen with brexit and uk if boris johnson takes over. >> they are both right wing populists that don't have an ideological anchor. it's more about them individually, trump and johnson, than it is a

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. and one challenge has more from london. british shipping in the gulf is now on its highest possible alerts the u.k. moved to maritime security level 3 after its government said this ship the b.p. oil tanker british heritage was approached by 3 iranian vessels london says h.m.s. montrose a warship moved in to warn the iranians away well we're very concerned this is a very serious escalation of the situation and you know we are proud that the royal navy was there to protect the heritage tanka but we are monitoring the situation very closely we don't want to escalate tensions we want tensions to come down iran has denied the incident took place with the foreign minister

and a short time ago, iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps which is operating in these waters and behind many of these provocations announced that it had seized this tanker. so this is the second serious provocation in two days. yesterday we saw the u.s. have to deal with bringing down an iranian drone that came too close to a u.s. warship in the straig strait of hormuz. today we're now seeing once again by all accounts, a british flag tanker being taken by iran in this straight of hormuz persian gulf area. the question really becomes very rapidly, what happens now. these provocations are taking place with some frequency, it's a challenge for commercial shipping in this region, you know, this is an area where that is so vital with oil and petrochemical shipments, also, regular cargo shipments moving through this area, throughout the middle east these are roots that then go on to asia, the united states and europe. to say that these are sensitive waters is an understatement. the safety of these waters is vital to international commerce around the globe. iran right now is causing a

yesterday the iranian islamic revolutionary guard corps navy released this video and admitted it capturednited arab emirates oil tanker last weekend. it is holding those 12 sailors hostage. president trump addressed the rising tension with iran. >> we hope for their sake they don't do anything foolish. if they do, they will pay a price like nobody's ever paid a price. >> reporter: meantime, the foreign minister denied iran shot down a drone yesterday, in fact, they proved the u.s. navy did not shoot down the iranian drone but, in fact, the video appears to prove the opposite, that an iranian drone was above the vessel for hours. the tape then stops. marines onboard used this state of the art electronic jamming device to bring down the drone. the device causes the electronics onboard a plane to jam. secretary of state mike pompeo addressed iran's foreign minister denying that the u.s. downed the iranian drone. >> it went down. and the fact that foreign minister zarif either didn't know or lied about it, i can't account for it. it happened. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister is currently

supreme leader tries to balance the diplomats with those folks who are the militia and the islamic revolutionary guard corpse ones if this tanker was seized to seize the tanker. they are the ones in syria, the ones that finance hezbollah and want to sow the seed. we have a battle inside of iran, a battle inside of the united states government, and no one should drop their guard. we may be heading to war. i am very glad that in the house they overwhelmingly passed a resolution saying in fact the president doesn't have the authority to go to war. even the acting secretary of defense at his confirmation hearing said that the 2000-2001 umf does not provide the basis but did point out the article 2 responsibility a president has. so the president can go to war, nonetheless. >> wendy sherman, a lot of things to be concerned about today. thanks for being here. >>> more ahead. we'll be right back from aspen. stay with us. so why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. what do all these people have in common, limu?oug [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely diff

i think that the worst things get, the more the islamic revolutionary guard corps, which is conducting this orchestra, is going to panic and hit the united states. iran has a long history of tit for tat attacks against the united states. and that goes way back to the marines in 1983. hostage-taking. all sorts of things. if that's their modus operandi, and they do not intend to give up. this administration would like the iranians out of iraq. i don't see them doing this. whether this is truly a standoff -- i think what everybody is worried about in the military is some sort of accident that's going to escalate very quickly and we'll be into a war we're not prepared for and we really don't want to be in. >> sobering thought, to say the least. really quickly, before we let you go, your take on what we just heard from the president, that the president does not want to be the policeman of the world. >> he's absolutely right. we can't win that. and he's been telling his generals for the last six months, we're out of there. we're going to get out. if we have to do what the pakistanis -- deal

names iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps an arm of its military a foreign terrorist organization the campaign of so-called maximum pressure intensifies. >> any nation or entity interacting with iran should do its diligence and err on the side of caution. the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits. >> reporter: the trump administration targets iran's lifeblood, threatening sanctions on any nation that continues buying their oil. in may the u.s. sends an aircraft carrier strike group, bombers and patriot missiles to the middle east, citing escalatory indications by iran. 1,500 troops follow with more to come. the next month, temperatures rise further. >> these unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security. >> reporter: the u.s. quickly blames iran for two oil tankers attacked near the strait of hormuz. iran vehemently denies involvement, but the u.s. releases video they say shows an iranian navy boat recovering evidence of its participation. a week later, iran shoots down a u.s. navy drone they say was intruding in its airspace, but the

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. the u.n. human rights council has agreed to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders in the philippine government's so-called war on drugs is accusing president tatty of inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women human rights watch estimates at least 12000 filipinos have been killed since detaches campaign began in 2060. france has passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants like google apple and facebook the 3 percent tax affects any digital company with a revenue of at least $844000000.00 of which at least 28000000 is made in france but the u.s. says it unfairly targ

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran and meanwhile the rices news agency is reporting that the united states will not. impose sanctions on iranian foreign minister zarif last month the treasury secretary steve had said zarif would be blacklisted in that week but sources tell royce's the decision could now be a hint that washington wants to keep the daughter to primacy open with iran now mediators from the african union say there's been progress in talks between sudan's ruling military council and a coalition of pro-democracy groups a draft deal was reached last week but the details still being finalized it was expected that the agreement would be signed on thursday but that didn't happen. at the volga to

will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. as you mentioned the strait of hormuz is one of the world's most important waterways every year thousands of vessels pass through the shipping lane which is just over 3 kilometers wide at its narrowest point almost a 5th of the world's oil around 20000000 barrels a day is shipped through the strait and ships have to navigate the territorial waters of both amman and iran but are protected by a un convention on the law of the sea which should allow them to pass without a problem. and miranda is a professor at the university of tehran he says the tank a seizure is part of a wider project to put pressure on iran if the british fail to release the iranian tanker because t

press tv broadcast the footage showing the islamic revolutionary guard corps circling the tanker thoughtessels and interference with safe passage in and around the straight. the headlines on bbc news: mps have backed a bid to stop a new prime minister suspending parliament to force through a no—deal brexit. the public finance watchdog says a no—deal brexit could add an extra 30 billion pounds a year to the deficit — and put the uk into recession a lodger who killed a 13—year—old girl to stop her from exposing him as a sex abuser, has been found guilty of her rape and murder. more than 6,500 arrests have been made across england and wales for attacks on emergency workers since tougher new laws were introduced last year. the figures include attacks on the police, paramedics, firefighters and prison officers. james vincent has the details. i‘m now recording. it‘s the eighth of february at 9:58. no, you're not. bleep. good. i went to have a polite chat as part of my role as a community support officer and unprovoked, he attacked me. carlos archer‘s attacker is serving seven months in prison

in the shape perhaps that the british have suggested the public affairs office of the islamic revolutionary guard corps naval forces have said that there were no encounters with foreign vessels in the past 24 hours so a clear flat denial it's not even that there is a different narrative here it is that no encounter took place with foreign vessels but they did say if they were instructed to seize or confront any vessel they will carry out those orders so the message there is clear nothing's happened but it could happen soon if necessary at least that's the that's the message we're getting from the i.r.g.c. there at the borders of iranian territorial waters iran's foreign minister javad zarif was also reported in local media saying that iran denies this allegation and he said this british claim reinforced by the united states is simply the u.s. and the u.k. trying to inflame tensions in the region even further excuse me now we have to remind viewers that it was the iranian government to us or if as well who said that attacks on oil tankers in the regions waters here in this part of the middle east in may

actions in a statement the united states central command said when aware of the reports of islamic revolutionary guard corpsnavy is harassment and attempts to interfere with the passage of the u.k. flag match and vessel british charity. today in the straits of hormuz we refer you to the u.k. ministry of defense for further information on this while this all comes as u.s. president donald trump issued another threat to iran over its nuclear program he tweeted iran has long been secretly enriching in total violation of the terrible $150000000000.00 deal made by john kerry and the obama administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially well it was only earlier this week that terror on announced it would be exceeding the limits on uranium enrichment set out under that 2015 nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year how correspondent saying does robbie has more from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic ad

competing narratives here iran's government has flatly denied that anything took place the islamic revolutionary guard corps and naval forces of public affairs office very quickly on the reports of this news issued a statement saying that there's been no contact with any foreign vessel in the past 24 hours foreign ministers of odds are also making comments that were broadcast on state media saying that there was no incident of this kind of the u.k. was trying to escalate tensions between iran and itself and that this did not help busy the current situation in terms of moving forward on a negotiated solution of course this comes just a 24 hours less than the after of france's top diplomats french president emmanuel across sentimental bone a senior diplomat in france to teheran to try to create some kind of negotiated solution to deescalate tensions in the region and with everything that's happening that seems like an overly optimistic plan right thank you at least 3 people have been killed in a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi that happened during the funeral of a former commander of the war in law

officers will no doubt tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that islamic revolutionary guard corps naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel iran's government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels iran's foreign minister zarif calling the u.k.'s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran a 13 year old suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in afghanistan killing 5 people and during dozens more the attack happened in the eastern province of. has claimed responsibility. still ahead on the mission oysters die in the move and we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins are you know dying extreme weather pushes the mississippi river to record levels taking a heavy toll on. plus. east meets west of chinese shell the monks make an entrance into an american style wrestling ring. we got the usual case of sunshine and showers across southeast asia malaysia seeing some lively downpours once again some rather wet weather also making its way to central an