Most enduring monuments. Hello and welcome im katty kay, with Christian Fraser in london. The strait of hormuz in the persian gulf has become so tense recently that oil tankers now need a military escort. Today one of those naval escorts came dangerously close to iranian vessels. The british navys hms montrose was forced to train its guns on three iranian boats that were impeding the progress of a british tanker. The ministry of defence says the boats, believed to belong to the Iranian Revolutionary guard, tried to stop the tanker as it moved into the straits. Iran had warned there would be repercussions over the uks seizure of an Iranian Oil Tanker off the coast gibraltar last week. The British Foreign secretary says the uk is doing all it can to keep its ships safe. Obviously very concerning developments but i am proud of the royal navy and the role they played in keeping British Assets and shipping say. We are continuing to monitor the situation very carefully. We a re monitor the s
British ships in one of the busiest oil shipping lanes in the world have been put on the highest state of alert. It comes as a Royal Navy Warship had to warn off three iranian gunboats that were trying to intercept a british tanker in the strait of hormuz. The ministry of defence says hms montrose moved between the tanker owned by bp and the iranian vessels and issued several radio warnings before the iranian boats turned away. Iran has denied that any confrontation took place. But it had already threatened to retaliate after British Royal marines seized an iranian tanker last week on suspicion of breaking eu sanctions. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. The warship hms montrose was on patrol when the british tanker was approached by three armed iranian fast boats. Montrose was reported to have quickly arrived at the scene, training her guns on the iranians who turned away after several warnings were issued over the radio. The tanker, british heritage, was about to trans
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There are in the United States. And england will face new zealand in the cricket World Cup Final after thrashing australia the predictions are already coming live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 6 oclock in the morning injakarta where, according to their lawyers, relatives of people who died in the boeing 737 max crash in indonesia have been cheated out of compensation. Many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash last october were persuaded to sign agreements that prevent them from taking legal action against boeing. The bbc has discovered relatives signed similar agreements following two previous crashes in indonesia and the agreements prevented them from suing in the us courts. Boeing declined to comment on the agreements. Richard bilton reports. Last october, a boeing 737 max crashed into the sea off indonesia. All 189 people onboard were killed. Within weeks, relatives
Celebrations around the ground. In such a pivotal game, england are doing their best to rise to the occasion. Jonny bairstow has now gone for 106 and england are starting to lose a few wickets, there are currently children 32 four with about 11 overs left and remember they have to win to make sure of a place in the semifinals so we could be in for a nerve racking afternoon. You have warned us thank you. Time for a look at the weather, heres matt taylor. A full week of sunshine at wimbledon i think, as most of us are seeing. Lets ta ke i think, as most of us are seeing. Lets take a look at the satellite imagery and the northern half of the country, a lot of cloud over scotla nd country, a lot of cloud over scotland and this was the scene across the hebridesjust scotland and this was the scene across the hebrides just a short time ago with outbreaks of rain. For the rest of the date the far north of scotla nd the rest of the date the far north of scotland seeing further outbreaks of scot