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A vent to present their own status as being the Innocent Party as being innocent as being the ones in the right so so i think its not particularly surprising that there would be 2 different types of stories but if we look at what what has happened in the in the long long history of the strait of hormuz particularly in recent decades we know that there have been routine threats from iran to close the strait of hormuz we know of iran has attacked various ships going back to the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. So we know that there is a modus operandi in operation here so i think whilst its contested was the iranians have denied it it seems relatively obvious that there is some type of subterfuge going on here there is some type of complicity involved involving the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps so are you saying that this is the retaliation that the iranians had threatened because iran has been threatening to retaliate since british marines seized that Iranian Oil Tanker and waters. Last week. I think there are 2 ways of looking at it 1st is as you say that it could be a retaliation for that event and some in iran have said look we need to retaliate we need to push back against against the United Kingdom for seizing this this time but i guess the other the other way of thinking about it is that its a response to the growing International Pressure that iran is facing not only from the United Kingdom and its issue last week but also from the United States the withdrawal from the j. C. P. O. Way the pressure from saudi arabia from the emirates from israel and the broader set of Geopolitical Forces that are squeezing the iranian economy that are squeezing the Islamic Republic at present and this is perhaps a way of iran exerting agency of demonstrating to the world that that whilst its been pushed into a corner it will not take things lying down that it has the capacity to lash out and to push back against this International Pressure and if you look at u. K. Raney and relations how much pressers this putting on those relations given that that the United Kingdom does remain in the nuclear deal. Yes it does but theres a long and complex history and a long and complex set of diplomatic relations between iran and the United Kingdom stemming back to the discovery of oil back in the 1920 s. And the relations between iran and then persia. Of course coupled with the coup that toppled maman mosaddegh in the 1950 s. Created a real sort of sense of frustration and anger towards the United Kingdom amongst the people of iran so i think theres a complex to involved here this isnt just about what happened last week and the tanker but draws on the longstanding frustrations and anger at the british as a consequence of how theyve treated the iranians now of course this is complicated by the United Kingdom wanting to stay in the nuclear deal but perhaps this is a case also of the United Kingdom not standing up to the United States enough or strongly enough or to irans liking as an attempt to try and save the deal all right simon maybe we thank you very much for joining us from lancaster and to morehead on the others there an hour including we take a look at the situation in the syrian province of that one year after rebels surrendered to the government backed forces france heads out u. S. Threats as it plows ahead with plans to tax internet giants. And sport the u. S. Womens National Football team add another trophy to their name peter has more coming up. But 1st palestinians say Israeli Settlers has set on fire at least one and a half 1000 all of trees in body in that south of nablus according to the u. N. Is really settlers have destroyed more than 4000 all of trees since the start of this year it also recorded 178 incidents of settler related damage to palestinian properties in the same period. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his pledge not to dismantle even the most remote illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank there had been speculation that he may offer concessions on settlements under a yet to be announced u. S. Peace proposal of those concessions it was reported could have been in return for valuable political victories from donald trump including recognizing jerusalem as israels capital but speaking on wednesday that the now declared all illegal settlements off limits in any peace plan. Is an International Criminal law expert she says Benjamin Netanyahu has moved isnt a surprise. This is very much expected before the elections time as usual we promise is for us to not effect from the new settlements will be very much in favor of the right wing running for election but in same time this is more of. This is the ass yes shooting story that was the scene of the netanyahu government that they are not on line with the International Concept that the west Bank Settlements in the west bank are illegal and that. Hundreds of palestinians from East Jerusalem and from west bank are also so when they went a step they are not going to effect any money whether or. Means those who were already in it will not back their hands. Obviously no Peace Process will will will be achieved without dealing with the settlements issue so its as if netanyahu is claiming that there is open and his government is open and sponsored actually is open to negotiation the same sound they are ruling out the one main conditions for the. Crosses to a place so theres a lot of controversy and people who sit by me say in this statement at least 8 people have been killed in a car bombing in northwestern syria another 35 including children were injured in that explosion happened near the city of 540 in. Meanwhile its been a year since rebels in the southern syrian province of that are surrendered since then u. N. And human Rights Groups have documented cases of arbitrary detentions and arrests and now security is worsening the reports from beirut. It was a symbolic moment in syrias war when the opposition surrendered are in july 2018 the southern provinces where the prodemocracy Movement Began back in 2011 we taking it had special significance for the government even though the opposition remained in control of some towns as part of russian brokered reconciliation deals that avoided further fighting a year later state control seems weak and fragile well the situation has really regressed over the previous 3 months where weve had a spate of different assassination attacks by unknown gunmen attacks on syrian army which is something which we havent really seen in areas which have been agreed upon reconciliation the state hasnt been the only target for rebel commanders particularly those who joined units of the army as well as civilians who joined state institutions have been killed its not clear who is behind the violence the opposition believes the government has much to gain. There have been many assassinations of civilians and former leaders of rebel groups who agreed to reconcile theyve been killed so the aim is to create a state of fear eventually change the socalled reconciliation deals. Some say the rest and there are is linked to the battle for influence between government allies russia and iran they have been recruiting locals and former rebel fighters into the different government affiliated military and security branches they control. Rising tensions between the reigns on the russians across syria on on Different Levels 1st militias backing each other and do shuffle senior positions the latest of which was the. Sickly changing all of the heads of the security agencies in syria in all different sides on the rainy and within the Iranian Coalition are reporting the rising tensions with russia and its allies. The return of the state has not improved peoples lives syrians have shown their anger they have protested in towns where Security Forces arent present speaking out against the lack of essential services as well as the arrests and detentions international Rights Groups have accused president bashar assad of reestablishing repressive rule but people continue to strive for freedom in the birthplace of their revolution. Beirut francis passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u. S. Says unfairly targets American Companies the tax is the 1st from a major economy to be imposed on Companies Like google or facebook and amazon it affects any Digital Company with revenue of at least 844000000. 00 of which at least 20000000. 00 is earned in france u. S. President has ordered an investigation into its effects of french finance minister bernard america said france on the us so find a way to solve their differences without threat. Of war id like to remind you that it is the 1st time in the east of us france relations that the Us Administration decides to launch an investigation within section 301 i believe that between allies we can and we should tackle our differences in another way than threatening each other france is a sovereign state and it decides its own tax policies and will continue doing so in all sovereignty the talks about learn has more from paris. Well the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire had some very strong words in the senate he said effectively that france doesnt take very kindly to threats from the United States now he was speaking in the senate that have passed this new digital tax law its imposes 3 percent tax on huge tech firms that are making more than 800000000. 00 worldwide but they have revenues of more than 30000000000. 00 in france and i said that it was very important that these techs take a more tax we are in a new digital age this is a new economy and these firms some of. The sort of power of a small state should be more accountable now the french president emanuel might call has made taxing these tech giants one of his Campaign Promises its very popular here in france in fact it was one of the demands of the yellow vest protesters and even though the u. S. Is extremely angry about these u. S. Tax tax giants tech giants that will now have to be taxed the tax will actually apply to some 30 International Companies including a French Company now france had wanted the European Union to impose a europe wide tax but it wasnt supported by all countries particularly countries like ireland that i have a low tax economy where some of these tech giants such as amazon are actually headquartered but france has forged ahead anyway because they say it is the right thing to do a man at the center of frances right to die debate has died after 11 years in a vegetative States Vincent lumbar was paralyzed from the neck down and suffered severe brain damage after a motorcycle accident he died after doctors removed life support something judges stopped multiple times despite requests by family whose condition led to debate in france over ending treatment for terminally ill patients. Governments and media organizations are proposing the creation of a global fund to support journalists in danger zones pledges were made at the global Media Freedom conference being held in london this week canada and the u. K. Are cohosting the event hope other countries will contribute to the funds 99. 00 media workers were killed in 2018 Charlie Angela is at the conference in london and she is joining us now from there charlie over to you. Well during we have seen some concrete promises a much in this 2 day summit u. K. Secretary and secretary jeremy hunt has promised to form a coalition of like minded governments who can diplomatic pressure on countries when they try and suppress Media Freedom weve also seen the creation of the promise of a Global Media Fund which will provide Legal Support for journalists in need and also provide them with Safety Training will so seeing some countries signing a declaration protecting freedom of expression one of those countries was gonna with me now is. Income or the information minister forgotten that now unfortunately. High is right. In that if you dont have hopes of finding. This there you see its not even then it was then going on in the. Us this when we know what has been done to the sites. And. And its not carried out within we do that just so there is an Ongoing Police investigation into that that member of parliament has been subject to investigation im a rest was made quite recently with the expectation that at least one of the persons are so suited with it who could then how. Much of the persons who. May have ordered. That very very terrible enough fortunate incident unfortunately the police got that intelligence wrong until the person was arrested turned out not to be the right person but the information i have is that that Police Investigation is still active it is an embarrassing blotch on our records and we encourage the investigative agencies to deal with it as quickly as possible so that we can also among other things get back our credential but also open up the space some more so weve seen a number of pledges and promises ideas what will you be taking away from this conference and implementing that well apart from the 5 of the the real principle of freedom responsible media is retreated we have clarity also on the 5 percent of things we are doing back home are the things that the Global Platform is suffocating for a media capacity and Huntsman Program so that we can support Media Persons to do a lot more quality work acord need to mechanism for the safety and protection of journalists so that we can train but be also valley deets and follow up and ensure that in the acts of intimidation infraction its dealt with substantively these are things that were working on back home and were happy to know that the Global Platform is also embracing it thank you so much. There isnt a country that doesnt actually publicly support press freedom and even enshrined in north koreas constitution but what weve been hearing repeatedly is that the Legal Framework is not in place to bring. All governments who have been present on this to justice 90 percent of crimes committed against journalists go on and this seems to be a cornerstone of this conference improving that legal protect unfortunately this summit is going to reconvene next year in canada and that is when we will see how these strategies have been implemented and hopefully bring that 90 percent figure down. Thank you still ahead on the. Signed a letter to the u. N. Condemning to be chinas most attention off of the week muslims. Costs Brazils Congress moves forward on widely unpopular pension reforms. And scored a big welcome for the latest big name arrival to the Chinese Super league peter has a detail a little later. How i once again more hot sunshine across the middle east no surprises here largely clear skies with a little more cloud over toward all the parts of pakistan a little more cloud to just sliding out of the caspian sea crusts towards the black sea have pushed way down across georgia or armenia azerbaijan is weak i want through the next couple of days mid fortys for baghdad and for kuwait city getting to around 30 celsius there in beirut 30. 00 to 40. 00 roos slim then warmer than that in aleppo over the next day also plenty of sunshine then as we go on into sas takes a few of those showers just spreading their way a little further southwards just around the caucuses but too much of the showers across iraq are potential little more clouds to the eastern side of me into that eastern side of saudi arabia pushing a little further south which might catch your spot of right i think its more likely to evaporate before reaching the ground 45 celsius here in doha still quite a stiff wind hopefully that windies in back as we go on into saturday by sassed i just noticed a little more cloud into that western part off saudi arabia not too much across Southern Africa at the moment seem fact we are looking at more very hot weather to get to the eastern side of south africa a 21. He lived in brazils largest for. One day the police king. Like thousands of others he disappeared. Witness follows a familys epic struggle for justice which became a National Cause and sent shock waves through the upper echelons of the political establishment in the shadow of the hill on aljazeera. The term precrime comes from this movie minority report in which a predicts it is a about something an individual has not yet done but is going to view and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they perform that act if you would have asked me 37 years ago if we would have gunshot detection or video cameras in neighborhoods or be able to predict what crimes occur i would have said youre crazy precrime coming soon on aljazeera. The top stories on the opposite right news our police have arrested 2 crew members from a detained Iranian Oil Tanker very accuse their breaching a new sanctions on syria iran has been demanding the tankers release since it was detained last week meanwhile the u. K. Government says a british warship has intervened after iranian boats tried to obstruct a british all tanker in the strait of hormuz on wednesday to one denies there was any confrontation as amos ravi is joining us now from tehran to tell us what more youre hearing is saying about the arrests offer the crew members on that Iranian Oil Tanker. Well dream were still waiting to hear official reaction to this breaking news but it really does tell us this latest report the incidents of the last 24 hours really illustrate that the relations between iran and the United States in the u. K. Are in a valley and it seems like they have yet to hit bottom now what were likely to hear from iranian officials is similar is probably going to be similar language to what we heard out of tehran last week when the grease one was 1st taken over by u. K. Off the coast of gibraltar senior government officials called it an act of piracy and iran has said that it does not recognize e. U. Sanctions against syria and ally iran has been a close ally of syria throughout its civil war in iran has said that it does not recognize e. U. Sanctions against syria because they are not International Sanctions they are not u. N. Sanctions and there by this taking of this vessel which they say wasnt headed to syria anyways they consider a breach of International Law themselves and so no doubt these latest reports of the arrests that have taken place on board the vessel are probably going to heighten tensions even more we can expect to see more anger from iranian officials in coming days all right thank you. 33 newly identified bodies have been laid to rest on the 24th anniversary of the massacre the worst mass killing on european soil since the 2nd world war thats when bosnian serb troops executed more than 8000 muslim men and boys in and around an area being guarded by u. N. Peacekeepers International Courts define the killings during the bosnian war as genocide at least a 1000 bodies are still missing. A u. S. Congressional committee is looking into worsening conditions in Detention Centers at the southern border with mexico in an emotionally charged hearing a guatemalan mother told politicians how her infant daughter died while in the custody of americas Border Patrol son 100 reports from washington. A tearful mothers visible pain captured members of Congress Make it better if they pay more out a piece of my heart like they pour out my soul yasmin juarez says her 19 month old Daughter Court of viral lung infection at a u. S. Immigration detention site after neglecting mistreatment during their 20 day maximum stay at the Holding Center she says she and little mary a were released days later died look at the thought of but i i wanted to have a better life for her and a Better Future and work hard at like so that she could keep growing the way that she was. Warrens has filed a wrongful death suit against the u. S. Government im so very sorry that we have failed you her case is not unique several immigrant children have died in u. S. Custody is 2 year old 105 fever listless like a rag doll i looked at her and immediately called our ambulance from our Childrens Hospital to pick her up and she ended up having bilateral pneumonia the democrats who run the House Oversight and titled the hearing kids in cages Inhumane Treatment at the border thats an indictment of the trumpet ministrations family separation policy everyone seems to agree theres a crisis at the border with republicans saying its the rush of immigrants coming to the u. S. And democrats saying its the detention policy itself. The name also expresses the outrage over what democrats described as jails for children we are reading the generation of children theyll never forget what we did say that this type of trauma can go way up some republicans push back i am frustrated with the title of the hearing it is a hearing in titled kids in cages. What we say and i personally will use matters ive been to the border many times and this day i have never seen a kid in a cage just before immigration and Customs Enforcement chief says it is unfair to blame immigration agencies coping with this surge of Central American immigrants fleeing violence and poverty if you dont reduce the flow youre going to continue to get the same thing that weve seen for the last 78 months its bad its getting worse arrests at the border fell 28 percent in june but with the trumpet ministrations saying it plans raids on undocumented families living in the u. S. Fairly soon the crisis at the border and in Detention Centers continues john hendren al jazeera washington meanwhile another u. S. Congressional committee is taking aim at trumps immigration policies members are due to vote on whether to grant subpoenas on the president s 0 tolerance policy with separates children from their families at the border and the House Judiciary Committee is also looking to summon a dozen current and former Trump Officials on a ledge of obstruction off justice for more on this joining us from washington d. C. So what do we expect to happen mike. Well this is very much a shotgun effect to being operated by the House Judicial Committee its deciding on whether to recommend the issuance of a number of subpoenas against at least 12 former members or present members of the Trump Administration including his advisers and son in law jared cushion a former chief of staff john kelly and former attorney general Jeff Sessions now the subpoenas will the discussion about the subpoenas sent to on 2 issues one is the up struction of Justice Charges with regard to the mill investigation and the 2nd is the operations at the border a number of officials Homeland Security officials being pondered whether they should be subpoenaed as to the instructions that they received and whether these contravened a u. S. Law now President Trump has treated 2 dozen times in the past few hours but hes reserved a specific end of fall the Congressional Committee this is what he says now the democrats have asked to see 12 more people who have already spent hours with Robert Mueller and spent a fortune on lawyers in so doing how many bites at the apple do they get before working on both the loopholes and asylum they also want to interview the highly conflicted and compromised merlin again he said he was done off his last 9 minute speech and that he had nothing more to say outside of the no collusion no obstruction report and enough already to go back to work that is President Trump responding to the House Judiciary Committee considering whether to recommend a number of subpoenas if they do it would have to go to the house for a full vote on whether the subpoenas should be issued all right mike hanna thank you lets take this on with kyron hogans hes a former prosecutor and current professor of law at harvard those those who of law hes running as a from new york thanks very much for speaking to us on aljazeera so. As mike was saying there are true 2 tracks here sabine subpoenas being issued lets look at the Bigger Picture for a moment how much does this turn up the heat on President Trump and should he be concerned no surprise that hes already tweeted. Well he should be concerned theyve engaged in many issues in a pattern of noncompliance with subpoenas and congressional requests and on some of those we know from the miller report that theyre not cooperating because they have something to hide or at least since its been exposed to. Divert attention from those issues. And so they do have a lot to worry about with these subpoenas in particular because as your correspondent said a sort of a shotgun approach. But each of these have you know a very solid basis in fact and have been preceded by requests in addition of the russian. Collusion or conspiracy and they are the obstruction of justice their issues say security clearances. Are and rog porter clerk to the president were given high level security clearances even though intelligence committees and or Intelligence Officers and the f. B. I. Had raised red flags about those questionnaire in particular in foreign entanglements then you have a citizen ship on the census question which is being looked into youve got hush money paid to 2. 00 people women who allege that they had affairs with trump the hush money would constitute an un reported a Campaign Contribution and so thats potentially criminal what do you think this is the Judiciary Committee today there are number of them right but when it comes to the is so family separation specifically in the issues going on at the border. There is no guarantee really that the administration will comply so if not where does this end up. Well its going to have to end up in the Courts Congress does have the power to enforce that is to use force and arrest people who may have subpoenaed and that power hasnt been used for over 80 years so they have to go through the courts and the problem there is even before they go to get the subpoenas and to some extent afterward the court is going to require the Congressional Committees as party before to show that they have exhausted all their efforts to get people to talk to them without a subpoena the courts very cautious in and forcing subpoenas then even before and after the subpoena theres a process that the court will allow to go on to again trying to negotiate get informal agreement so its going to be a very slow process because it has to go through the court and just look at also that this week because Robert Mueller himself was testifying to the Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee what do you expect to happen there. Well unfortunately what will happen there is youll have congressional congressmen and women making says beaches instead of engaging in proper questioning or said that he wouldnt go outside his report if there is plenty that a good lawyer could do to lead moller through the report and emphasize the things that the democrats want to be emphasized but unfortunately they rarely turn the questioning over to a lawyer who could probably early in effect crossexamine moller all right so we thank you very much for speaking to us from new york. Congress has taken a major step towards reforming the countrys bench and system a priority for president join europe balsa narrow Pension System that is excuse me in the 1st of 2 votes the bill passed the lower house with a clear majority of supporters say the measures are needed to stave off another recession but there are many who still oppose it as Priyanka Gupta reports. The vote that brazils president says will lead to prosperity but for some jerry both scenarios pension reform plan falls far short of steadily go over me while i am very ashamed what is happening here tonight on wednesday the lower house approved both scenarios plan with huge numbers in an initial vote yes the age here for these reforms are aimed at reducing inequality im sure that is the goal of all parliamentarians here those who voted for and also against the bill. Was but these protesters think the poor will have to work longer why politicians maintain their privileges at last i mean the working class is living in misery heads of families living on the street because they cant pay the rent its tough before they measure the pockets of the poor they have to riches had their own pockets because there are so many people there in the congress retiring at 4050 years and we have to die to retire brazil doesnt currently have a minimum age for retirement and its constitution guarantees Retirement Benefits for all both sonera wants to change that his measures include a minimum retirement age of 65. 00 for men and 62. 00 for women also an increase in Workers Pension contributions and cuts to some benefits. Some say there are forms are important in a country which spends 44 percent of his budget on Social Security a rapidly aging population means they could be in for younger workers but. The government things it would save around 266000000000. 00 over 10 years money that south americas biggest economy can use to put itself back from the brink of recession made a little imagine you know what its going 1st the government doesnt have any more money and this is why the reform is so urgent this reform doesnt happen then we have to cut into more important areas secondly because of social justice i am in favor of pynchon reform. The lower house is expected to vote for the 2nd time in the coming days before the bill goes to the senate. But to protest this one will bring brazil to a standstill if the bill is passed and the demands are ignored. 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 governments war on drugs its accusing president rodriguez the territory 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 the territories Campaign Began in 2016 they were state of louisiana is bracing for more Severe Weather after a huge storm hit the area on wednesday widespread flooding is making a difficult to get around the city of new orleans roadways and Office Buildings are filled with water forecasters say a Tropical Cyclone forming in the gulf of mexico could become a hurricane that hits the coast by the weekend. Meanwhile beach goers were forced to flee the eastern italy after they were battered by hail stones the size of oranges 18 people were injured in the city of pescado was flooded in the storm. Now the consumption of sugary soft drinks and fruit juice has been linked to a higher risk of developing cancer french researchers surveyed 100000 adults over a period of up to 9 years they found even a small daily serving of 100. 00 millimeters about a 3rd of a can of soda could raise a persons overall cancer risk by 18 percent so the popularity of sugary drinks has exploded in recent decades and already blamed for obesity which itself is a leading factor in developing cancer to counter this several countries have introduced sugar taxes the Research Shows say cancer rates could fall significantly if more governments follow suit its report author matilda to v. A. Works with the French National institute of health and medical research she says many will be surprised to learn that even fresh fruit juice carries risks. In this study. Either fresh squeezed orange juice is were executed with increased cancer risk this may seem we have because we know that in produces we have Vitamins Minerals a little bit of that its with fibers also and know that it gives but the thing is that they also are very high source of the sugar and the sugar contents are just is is about the same of the shit out content of soda us and so this is not so we have to observe yes its because and here the main driver obvious situation seems to be sugar there are several ways of action the 1st one is the recommendations from the population for instance in france we have a commission that say less than one glass of sugary drinks per day and this includes could you see is also there are some Food Labeling that could be put on food on beverages and that would not generally indicating the nutritional quality of the code that we have a score for instance an increase kori in france belgium and 6 spain and so it takes into account the sugar content and indicates the consumer. We have and so the good until quality and also of course suggest the taxes you mentioned are probably a good idea also and maybe some of the measures for instance to put a call dana what are nearby distributors of sugary drinks so that people that are thirsty can choose water instead of sawdust for instance so many measures that could be undertaken by the government still had on the aljazeera news our extreme runners looking to go up in the world peter has the details coming up in just a moment. Thank you and thank you. Hello again tom for the sports news with peter thank you very much cricket is where we begin hosts england all closing in on victory over their biggest rivals in a place in the World Cup Final australia lost key early wickets in the semi final at age best in birmingham including caps and finch who went for nought to 223 in reply england are currently 179 for 2 off to 26 of. Ladies semifinals they had wimbledon has seen 2 dominant performances on same to court 7 time champion Serena Williams took less than an hour to reach her even 11th singles final at the all england club she was a 6162 win against bob the city who was playing in her 1st grand slam semifinal so we know hes chasing her 24th grand slam title that would make her equal with the australian great Margaret Court who holds the record. Its good you know especially after my year so i definitely feels good to be back in the final mention you know yeah the way you moved on court today the way you played all facets of the game how much better was it today than at the start of this just very tournament yeah its definitely a lot better like i said i just need to match is in every match and know that im improving and you know i just i just needed to feel good and i said now that i feel good i can do what i do best which is play tennis former world number one samantha had also breezed into the finals she dropped just 4 games against the 8th seed spitta lino and since it wasnt looking very strong in a 6163 straight sets victory its the 1st time he has reached the final at wimbledon shell be looking to add to her one and only grand slam title so far that was last years french open. Now the womens world cup champions have swapped their football boots for heels at the species thats an annual Award Ceremony in the United States for top Sports Performance are those in favor of equal pay say the womens national. Days after clinching this years trophy the usa won best team and forward alex morgan was named best female athlete the team started the day at a parade in new york city rob reynolds was then sent us this report. Tens of thousands of fans lined up early to join in the grand traditional celebration that new york city offers its heroes a raucous confetti strewn procession up broadway. The crowds roared and chanted as the team triumphantly paraded through the canyon of heroes at a ceremony outside City Hall Team members dance joyfully before each one was presented with the key to the city mayor bill de blasio star player meghan rypien praised her teammates this. Is so resilient its so tough. Has such a sense of humor is just so bad many parents brought their children both girls and boys to cheer the Team Football or soccer as it is more commonly known here is one of the most popular youth sports in the us its such a good team and the fact that there is like the boys seem of the mens world cup its like if its like the moment theres so much better several of the best known players on the Team Including rapinoe are gay that was a special point of pride parade spectator Colleen Doyle who is a lesbian i think it means a lot of shows that when they cant be open and proud to be me they are especially in this or another issue highlighted by the victorious women was the disparity in a between male and female athletes. At a time when the u. S. Is divided politically and in many other ways many people here were happy to come out and show simple pride and patriotism honoring a group of true american champions actually feels like a relief to just celebrate something that. Is just good for our country needs to make certain kids feel good about our country amid the confetti and the cheers americans at least most of them seem at last found something to agree on rob reynolds aljazeera new york. The champions of the Chinese Superleague shanghai asya p. G. Have been showing off a new stall strike that would be. Left premier league Club West Ham united for 29000000. 00 fee to play in china the austrian is being paid a reported 350000. 00 a week by shanghai brazilian pay oscar and the whole color among the clubs other big name imports. And while australias cricketers face a steep challenge to keep england their bay in that cricket world cup semifinal it may not be quite as steep of take a look some of the toughest athletes in the world are running up a ski jump in italy thats on a 35 degree incline this race is one of 4 like it across the alps the athlete who gets the most points in the series wins this one in italy was particularly brutal taking place in 30 degree heat. You know it quite for me during our rights peter thank you very much for about out there thanks for watching many news hour on aljazeera back in just a moment with much more of the days news see you in a minute but i. Walked away and put on in society that opened up the space for the image that age is the european problem and its not accountable and its impossible for the people to bear that is for link up our people ready dont want to take more of a leader to focus on a strong man or song woman while getting the growth of rejectionism its called because the model doesnt work europes forbidden colony episode 2 on aljazeera. For the last 2 years the students have been collecting rubbish every day its helped clean up the campus and helped build some of its facilities for every 2 kilos of Plastic Waste they collect this School Receives a brick made of plastic and cement. For some activists this may not be the most ecological way to eliminate the problems of plastic but this is seen as an immediate solution to the growing problems of landfills across the Country Waste can now be used to manufacture building materials. Every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens western reserve loss no one to. Sweeping association of islam with violence european muslims facing the stalk reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. On aljazeera. Gibraltar Police Arrest the captain of an iranian supertanker seized by the u. K. Last week. Watching aljazeera live from a headquarters in doha. Also ahead. Fronts passes a law to tax digital giants in defiance of u. S. Anger. More than 20 countries signed a letter to the un condemning whats that to be chinas mass the tension of we go muslim. And were in Southern Ethiopia to examine the impact off a water crisis on rural communities. Hello Gibraltar Police say theyve arrested the captain and chief officer of the iranian super tanker that was seized by british marines last week it was soft in waters just off the u. K. Overseas territory on suspicion of breaking you sanctions by taking oil to syria documents and Electronic Devices have also been removed from the ship well the new developments follow u. K. Allegations that iranian boats tried to obstruct a British Oil Tanker in the strait of hormuz one of the worlds most Important Oil shipping channels iran though denies any such confrontation so place lets bring in rory chalons who is joining us from london anymore youre hearing off on the arrests off the crew members of that Iranian Oil Tanker in gibraltar. Yes were hearing from the generals a chronicle citing police in gibraltar that both the captain and the chief officer of the grace one super tanker this a rainy and oil ship that was detained a week ago. They have been arrested not charged yet but theyre being arrested for breaching e. U. Sanctions of course the allegations are that this oil tanker was on its way to syria and therefore was breaching the this sanctions that are being put in place against taking various things like oil to syria to the assets governments now the police have been searching this shop ship from top to bottom for several days now and they say that they have seized documents and Electronic Devices and the investigation is still ongoing and scrapes one this supertanker is still detains of course we also have some other breaking news lines about the incident that place in the gulf where the british say that a Royal Navy Frigate had to get between supertanker there an oil tanker called British Heritage operated by b. P. Which they felt was being threatened by 3 iranian vessels at the h. M. S. Got involved and basically warns these iranian vessels off as a result of that the british have raised the security level of ships under the british flag in the gulf area to security level 3 the highest level now that is something that they do when they believe there is a specific threat that the ships might be vulnerable to and being under a level 3 security. Various restrictions on getting on and off the ship and the ships movements and that sort of thing and that will last for as long as the British Government feels that this threat is imminent all right a challenge thank you lets not bring in joining us from tehran and seeing a lot of moving parts right now to whats happening in the strait of hormuz but lets just focus on the breaking news story the developing story that Gibraltar Police say theyve arrested the captain and chief officer of that iranian super tanker that was seized last week the iranians have been calling for the supertankers release so any official reaction to these arrests. Well during were still waiting for official reaction but we are likely to hear the same anger the same strong comments that we heard a week ago when the Iranian Oil Tanker was detained by the u. K. Royal marines seized by the u. K. Royal marines iranian officials in to her on responded very angrily calling it an act of piracy saying that the United Kingdom this was a comment from president s an iranian self at a Cabinet Meeting earlier this week just yesterday he said that the United Kingdoms actions were making International Waterways unsafe iran has said it does not recognize e. U. Sanctions against syria and even if it did it said that this vessel was not headed to the port in syria that the United States and the u. K. Are suggesting it was going to iran has said it was traveling in through International Waterways and this detention of the ship busy is not just attacking iran its global reach in terms of its naval vessels its attacking something that iranians are very frustrated about already of irans economy when it was seized by the United Kingdom it had approximately 2000000 barrels of crude oil in its cargo an enormous amount of revenue for iran iran of course has pledged it will continue to sell oil despite unilateral u. S. Sanctions and this was one of its efforts to do so through what it calls partly possibly its grey market irans oil vessels do sell oil in International Waters piping it into other ships and thats been one of the ways that its been getting around sanctions in the past this latest news is likely to anger iranian leaders more is likely to heighten tensions iran again saying that the seizure of this boat was piracy its called for its Immediate Release and what happens next is likely going to make things worse sooner than better and as for the alleged incidents in this strait of her moves. A lot of contradictory information emerging on what exactly happened then if the d. Day did happen. Well iran and the United States and the u. K. On the other side of this are really in competing narratives here irans 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 theres 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 frances 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 thats 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 Lawrence County for half that more than a dozen people are injured more about than one has has more from tripoli. Symmetry is very close to the headquarters of the special forces unit which are under the control of the world. Have to we understand that this was a funeral held for a former commander of the special forces units and he would get under the former regime of Moammar Gadhafi but in that symmetry there were the military units including the special forces individuals including their commander the current commander the major general. We know that these explosions could be used as a pretext to push the special forces individuals to join have to this military campaign to seize the capital tripoli especially we know that the mainly special forces individuals including their current commander. They refused to join in may have to as a military campaign to move on tripoli we also know that. Medical sources in a but as you say that the number of victims could rise especially those wanted many of them have been in Critical Condition france has passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u. S. Says unfairly targets American Companies tax is the 1st from a major economy to be imposed on Companies Like Google Facebook and amazon it affects any Digital Company with revenue of at least 844000000. 00 of which at least 28000000 is earned in france where as President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into its effects the tosser butler has more from paris where the french finance minister bruno the man had some very strong words in the senate he said effectively that france doesnt take very kindly to threats from the United States now he was speaking in the senate that have. Passed this new digital tax law its imposes 3 percent tax on huge tech firms that are making more than 800000000. 00 worldwide but they have revenues of more than 30000000. 00 in france and i said that it was very important that these techs take a more times that we are in a new digital age this is a new economy and these firms some of. The sort of power of a small state should be more accountable now the french president him at all mark or has made taxing these tech giants one of his Campaign Promises is very popular here in france in fact it was one of the demands of the yellow vest protesters and even though the u. S. Is extremely angry about these u. S. Tax tax giants tech giants that will now have to be taxed the tax will actually apply to some 30 International Companies including a French Company now france had wanted the European Union to impose a europe wide tax but it wasnt supported by all countries particularly countries like ireland that i have a low tax economy where some of these tech giants such as amazon are actually headquartered but france is forged ahead anyway because they say it is the right thing to do. Check on the weather is that and warnings that just a small daily glass of sugary soft drink or french use could raise your risk of cancer. And its bye bye beetle the end of the road for a car thats known and loved around the world. How i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast we keeping those flooding concerns to southern parts of china at the moment lots of cloud showing up lots of big downpours plenty of thunder as well large hail and of course some flooding potential for mudslides you can see where the heaviest rain is where we have the dark is shading on our charles pushing out through hong kong notching further north which is we go on through saturday could see some wet weather also encroaching into parts of shanghai by this stage whether to cry