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T w. This is news a lot from Berlin Germany and france demand the Immediate Release of a British Oil Tanker seized by iran tehran puts out dramatic footage of its revolutionary guards dropping from a helicopter to take control of the ball carrier stand in paris berlin is calling the capture a dangerous escalation in the gulf region. German chancellor Angela Merkel leads tributes to the conspirators who tried to assassinate at all fittler and overthrow the nazi government 75 years ago today. And ...

This point have to stop you there but thank you so much for that simon maven thank you. tens of thousands are marching on the streets of london in one of the biggest pro e.u. rallies the country has ever seen the march for change is calling for the u.k. to reverse grex it in remain a member of the european union it comes days before a new prime minister is due to be sworn in on wednesday the front runner boris johnson has said britain will leave the e.u. as planned on october 31 deal or no deal....

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 and others and thats your package demonstrated thats 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 the world stage and remind people that it still has a role to play in this gam...

Are seeking to cover up their weaknesses with such claims as tensions in the gulf summer diplomats are scrambling to keep the nuclear deal from on ruffling completely. well earlier i spoke to mideast analyst simon maven at the university of lancaster in the u.k. and i began by asking him how significant the tit for tat succession of incidents really is it can be read in a number of different ways it can be seen as just a small step a step from rhetoric to action or it can be seen as a quite sign...

Conflict we called for deescalation and iraq with full respect for international routes but with both the u.s. and iran unwilling to back down such calls are likely to go on so. lets get you more now with simon maven hes a mideast analyst at lancaster university and he joins us now from the city of leeds in the u.k. a very good day to you sir at the u.s. here is using the carrot and stick approach with iran ramping up the pressure on the one hand and subsequently dialing it down and striking a m...

States to try ending increase its own implements its own leverage in the region through iran but also as a means of tailing u.s. influence analyst simon it may have been a firm lancaster university thank you for weighing in i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. at least one person is dead and dozens more injured after a series of explosions tore through a missions depot in southern kazakhstan officials have evacuated the nearby town of reason the co...

Statue in afrin city center is a symbol of kurdish resistance now its gone along with the peoples protection unit also known as y p g that turkish backed forces drove turkey sees the y.p. g. as a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security kurdish officials have repeatedly called on the international community for help with little success in the fight against nato second largest army the kurds remain defiant our forces in every area and afrin will be a nightmare for them. the re...