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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 arabia's king solomon has approved hosting u.s. forces in the country that's 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 israel's longest serving prime minister he spent over 13 years in office but now he faces fresh elections and is under threat of possible corruption charges netanyahu his record surpasses that of israel's foundi...

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 it's coming to a crash it trying to bring soldiers back home because they can't pay a lot of bad things happening to them and it's very easy to straighten out or it's very easy for us to...

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. we're not looking at military options we're 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 navigation is restricted iran is the biggest loser but navigating the waterway crucial for global oil...

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 the world stage and remind people that it still has a role to play in this game now that will have se...

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 that's 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 we've 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 that's the big concern that the stakes are so high right now that the seizure of my all time when crude folks people in washington and london going to tak...