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A global affair. just before we go a look at some of the other stories making news around the world saudi arabias king solomon has approved hosting u.s. forces in the country thats according to reports by saudi state media the u.s. defense department confirmed the move as well saying it would deploy troops there as a deterrent against unnamed threats. benjamin netanyahu today becomes israels longest serving prime minister he spent over 13 years in office but now he faces fresh elections and is u...

For attacks on 6 time kurds in and around the strait tehran has resorted to disrupting shipping through the choke point in response to crippling u.s. sanctions. u.s. president donald trump wants to pressure tehran into more concessions over its nuclear program he says his strategy is working iran there showing their colors going to work out very nicely iran is in big trouble right now their economy is crashing its coming to a crash it trying to bring soldiers back home because they cant pay a lo...

A game of high stakes. the seizure comes after no rain in old tanker is being held in custody for a further 30 days in gibraltar on suspicion of heading for syria in breach of sanctions. british foreign secretary jeremy hunt said the tit for tat would not spiral out of control. were not looking at military options were looking at a diplomatic way to resolve the situation. but we are very clear that it must be result freedom of navigation in the gulf is absolutely essential if that freedom of nav...

A political dimension to it and this is just mentioned the political dimension concerns this growing pressure that is rising in the gulf that iran and iran is facing a range of different economic and political preciously united states on all of us and thus your package demonstrated as having a real sizable impact on the iranian economy and the iranian state affecting millions of people and that means that iran is having to respond in different ways internationally to try and reassert itself on t...

And its allies is your real danger that the u.s. or others will retaliate thereby prompting a major escalation of some kind i think thats certainly a concern that amidst all of these growing tensions that some point that will be a retaliation and that retaliation will kick this crisis on to the next level but what weve seen so far is from the from the united states and u.k. calls for a responsible. way of addressing this crisis and i guess thats the big concern that the stakes are so high right ...

A potentially incredibly serious response and impact on the world economy. no less because iran has a lot of proxies in the region as you well know what else could tehran do to increase the pressure on the u.s. and its allies. well i think what were seeing is presents a relatively restrained response as essentially a tit for tat response to british and american actions weve seen the tankers being seized were not necessarily see in iran mobilizing its proxies across the region the likes of his a ...

Returning to a very familiar message i mean i interpret that as a little bit of not really belonging to todays event and my sense is that shes got her mojo back she had a couple of she was in a phase where she seemed like a lame duck she had a couple of sets setbacks you have health worries but shes had one or 2 good weeks recently and that for me was a statement im ready to battle again for a values based europe its your signature yeah exactly that you created thanks so much you. germany and fr...