prices based on what other countries pay for their care, that s the proposal. to iran. tensions spiking with iran. five armed iranian gun boats trying unsuccessfully to seize a british oil tanker in the persian gulf on wednesday. it was likely an attempt at revenge for a british boat. fred pleitgen is live. a tricky situation and now this. reporter: yeah, you re absolutely right, christine. tricky situation, and it continues to get more tense and it continues to get well. we re getting information from the britts that apparently all of this happened late last night when the tanker was trying to go through the northern end of the strait of hormuz. they say three boats from iran s revolutionary guard core got in the ship s way and tried to force the ship into iranian waters. the britts say the warship got between the speed boats and
and another victim comes forward. donald trump is celebrating what he calls a major legal victory over the deep state. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with breaking news out of the persian gulf. allison barber has details about the latest provocation. reporter: according to us officials this all happened 10 hours ago. a senior us defense official says iran s islamic revolutionary guard tried to seize a british oil tanker in the persian gulf. the official says there were 5 uranian boats, british warships 5 miles behind a british tanker and the warship is said to be iranian boat leveling its guns and threatening to open fire. fox news told they left the area after that. a manned us reconnaissance
los angeles is a democratic donor having contributed tens of thousands of dollars in total over the years to california politicians, including los angeles mayor eric garcetti and congressman adam schiff. buck, by the way, has not been criminally charged in either the death of moore or timothy dean, although an investigation of dean s death the los angeles district attorney s office is ongoing. my february martha: jonathan hunt in l.a., thank you very much. breaking news this evening, reports that armed members of iran s revolutionary guard just tried to seize a british tanker in the persian gulf as it crossed into the strata form. initial reports say that attempt was unsuccessful, although there is something that the iranian that is something that the iranian president threatened to do just yesterday in retaliation for an iranian tanker that was seized by the british earlier this week. also new tonight, the regime
from those who say iran s recent actions are related to u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal. after the deal but before recent events, iran has been on a campaign of aggression. those are described as somehow opening a hornets nest are living on another planet. reporter: the prime minister did not say anything about president trump s decision to call off military strikes after iran s revolutionary guard shot down a u.s. drone on thursday. and he reportedly told cabinet members not to comment on it publicly. jon? jon: ellison bar we are report barber reporting, thanks. a pivotal moment for the u.s. and china. president trump set to meet with chinese president xi this week hoping to settle the trade dispute between the world s two large economies. how those upcoming trade talks could affect what you pay for many products. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows.
this dialogue it appears there will be sanctions going into effect tomorrow and additional sanctions for some context on thursday iran s revolutionary guard shot down in american drug and that drone unmanned but it provokes resident trump and his team to get closer to ordering an airstrike on around. he canceled the strike after he learned that the casualties that would be involved. everybody was saying i m a warmonger and now they say dove. i m neither. i m a man of common sense and that s what we need in this country. i did not like the idea of them knowingly shooting down an unmanned drone and then we kill 150 people. i did not like that. if the leadership of iran ends badly it will be very, very bad day for them. as for the type of sanctions, the president would not get into