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Hello and welcome to bbc news. The British Foreign secretaryjeremy hunt says britain will do what it takes to keep International Shipping safe after a uk registered oil tanker was seized by iran in the gulf. Mr hunt said tehran had assured him last week that it wanted to de escalate tensions in the region, but was now doing the opposite. Iran has released footage of the moment its troops seized the vessel. Our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more. This is the Moment Iranian revolutionary guards took over the stena impero, descending from a helicopter onto the deck of the tanker, as f...

More foreign citizens are due to leave the chinese city of wuhan as the numbers infected with the potentially deadly coronavirus still increase. Authorities there say 170 people have now died there are another 1,700 confirmed cases. In the next few hours hong kong will halve the number of flights to Mainland China and suspend train and ferry services. John sudworth has the latest. Safely out of wuhan, a plane arriving at a California Air base with 200 americans on board. Earlier, japan got a flight full of its citizens out, touching down in tokyo. The night before the great escape. But the bri...

The International Space Station has been ever-present in our lives for more than two decades. What will happen when we lose it in 2031?

China's plan for space involves acquiring valuable intellectual property and developing new tech of their own.

A soon-to-launch NASA mission is set to offer more data on North America’s air quality than researchers and public health programs have ever had