On t. W. This is v. W. News live from Berlin Britain pledges to protect its ships from what it is calling a running in piracy foreign minister jeremy hunt says that the u. K. Against joining with european allies to ensure ships can travel safely through the Strait Of Hormuz that is after all ron seized a British Oil Tanker there on friday. Also coming up another weekend of antigovernment protests in hong kong and in Violence Police fired tear gas and Rubber Bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators and this protesters seek
refuge in a Train Station and theyre attacked by dogs thought to be chinese gang members plus a big win for ukraines president bloaters alaskas party claims an outright majority after sundays parliamentary elections and he now deliver on promises reforms and to bring peace to eastern ukraine. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program British Foreign minister jeremy hunt says that his country is not looking for confrontation with iran but had strong words for tehran
of commons after a meeting of prime minister s cobra a motion seeking immunity so let s have a listen to what he had to say under international law iran had no rights to obstruct the ship s passage let alone board. it was therefore an act of state piracy which the house will have no hesitation in condemning. it because freedom of navigation is a vital interest of every nation we will now seek to put together a european led maritime protection mission to support the safe passage of both crew and cargo in this fight whole region we ve had constructive discussions with a number of countries in the last quarter and we will discuss later this week the best way to complement this with recent u.s. proposals in this area. so let s get more now we re joined from london by correspondent barbara faisal with the latest on this so we heard the foreign
a has died over and illustrates a cat was 95 born in berlin she fled nazi germany with her family and wrote about her experiences in her novel when hitler stole pink rabbit. and over the next 4 days 400000000 people will have the opportunity to vote in elections for the european parliament the netherlands open the voting today of the 1st dutch voters headed to the ballot boxes at midnight comes and i suppose he s searching for this and nationalist who wants to reign in the been. voting is also underway in the u.k. although more than half the country didn t want to participate in the 1st place and the politicians are still and go to political turmoil open bracks it s his prime minister theresa may is once again fighting to keep a job. correspondent barbara faisal is at a polling station in london and welcome barbara what is the mood there how do people feel about these elections happening given that the country was supposed to