A month after the military crackdown that killed more than 100. 00 people and how frances push to be more environmentally friendly will see consumers paying more for their flights out of the country. So the United States says it is attempting to form a military coalition to protect shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen the trumpet ministrations blames teheran and its proxies for several attacks on tankers in the gulf in the past few months a 5th of the worlds oil is traded through that area earlier a commander in irans revolutionary guard issued a new threat as well against the u. S. Bases an aircraft carriers in the region saying they would be destroyed if they made a mistake. Now iraqs Prime Minister is saying any disruption to shipping in the strait of hormuz could hurt the countrys economy the strait provides the only sea passage from the gulf thought to the rest of the world and oil makes up 95 percent of iraqs 6 bolts most of which go through the gulf baghdad has been in
A great honor to work with my friend. Between qatar and the u. S. The countrys 3 leaders signed military and business deals and the e. U. Calls for an urgent sit down with all involved urging iran to return to full compliance with the nuclear deal. So the us president has ramped up his twitter attacks on the British Ambassador as well as outgoing Prime Minister theresa may on tuesday trump called mays handling of brags that foolish and said the british envoy kim the rock is quote very stupid guy u. K. s top diplomat has hit back calling trumps comments disrespectful all of this of course triggered by that leaked memo from britains top diplomat in the u. S. Referring to the trumpet ministration as inept the supporters from alan fischer. President friends it was a high profile jennifer qatars amir she brought together political and Business Leaders as well as washingtons top diplomats press missing the uki. Disinvited by the white house after the publication of leaked memos sharply criti
Things in new polling. No surprise here that trump remains the run away frontrunner. You go deeper in the numbers, guy requests, you have to wonder if there is a ramaswamy revolution going. Trump pain maining his lead while dropping 3 points from june, he is still ahead 37 points of his nearest competitor ron desantis, who fell 6 points, you see, from june out of the 20s, now in the teens at 16 . With Vivek Ramaswamy coming to life as a potential g. O. P. Breakout star, more than doubling hits position. You see he climbed 6 points to 11 . No indication, by the way, that his surge is directly connected to that ability to Rap Eminem Songs at the Iowa State Fair. Former mike pence gaining a point in the middle of the pack with nikki haley also take the 1 point climb as well and trumps most vocal critic Chris Christie seeing some growth up 2 points, 1 to 3 . But, obviously, still 50 behind the frontrunner. Finally, i want you to take a look at the small slip senator tim scott took down a p
We start with the social media app tiktok because its ceo has vowed to keep on fighting after the us House Of Representatives passed a bill that could see the app banned in america. Shou zi chew released a video on tiktok threatening legal action and warning that if the bill becomes law it will mean the end of tiktok for its 170 million users in the us. Well hearfrom him injust a moment, but first, heres our us Business Correspondent erin delmore who has been following developments on capitol hill. The houseboat sets the stage for what could become an ultimatum to tiktok Chinese Owned Company bytedance. Selby avenue or it will be banned. There is a way to go between here and there. It needs to go through this and it faces an uncertain future. The Senate Majority leader has been noncommittal about whether he will bring it up for a vote. Some studies are only about to vote against it. If it does move through the senate, President Biden that he will sign it. Components of the bill argue t
Media this morning that the Hospital Systems are inundated right now with burn patients. Those suffering from smoke inhalation. She says theres no 911, service cell service is down phone service is down as well. The coast guard has confirmed that theyve had to pull 12 people from the water so far that ran into the ocean to escape the heat and the flames. La hina has been devastated. One resident says all boat owners have been asked to rescue people from the water. And here you can see in this video from a viewer there to our sister station on maui. That. Traffic is backed up. A lot of the roads in some cases blocked by downed power lines and by fallen trees, all courtesy of the extremely strong winds that were generated from hurricane well to the south of the island chain will get more from john in a minute on the weather and all of this. But look at this devastation that you see on the screen. The latest video coming to us from maui state of emergency has been declared, as you can ima