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[00:00:10] Tehran of of says Iran and Oman have agreed a route through the straight of
[00:00:14] Hamos provided third parties stay
[00:00:24] forces resume military strikes on southern Lebanon, even though
[00:00:27] delegates from both sides are in. Roame talking
[00:00:30] peace,
[00:00:33] this says Israeli soldiers detained several Palestinians during raid in the
[00:00:37] Colindia refugee camp in the occupied West
[00:00:39] bank and former Liverpool legend
[00:00:43] Mohammed Salah causes a splash in the football market joining the
[00:00:47] Turkish side trabs on
[00:00:48] spore.
[00:00:55] of Now Iran says it has reached an
[00:00:58] agreement with Oman. a route for ships transiting through the straight of
[00:01:02] homus and is in the final stages of preparing a joint
[00:01:06] announcement, but Tehran has also warned that the agreement
[00:01:10] does not guarantee safe passage through the straight due to the
[00:01:13] US naval blockade. officials in Washington had hoped an agreement to open the
[00:01:17] straight would happen this
[00:01:19] in week. Iran's deputy foreign minister says details on the deal with
[00:01:23] Oman are being
[00:01:26] of finalized.
[00:01:38] and those by literal site agreements with oman, because it's not
[00:01:42] just map, these fundamental agreements with Oman have been mostly
[00:01:46] completed, meaning we have made significant progress in our
[00:01:50] discussions with Oman, and this progress is on the verge of being
[00:01:53] finalized.
[00:01:57] Areza Hatomy has the latest on those talks
[00:01:59] from the Iranian. capital Iranian officials
[00:02:03] are very optimistic, they
[00:02:06] say that the progress has been significant, they're
[00:02:10] positive about
[00:02:11] the the negotiations, ongoing negotiations between Iran
[00:02:15] and Oman, of course Iranians say Iranians say
[00:02:19] that talks have not concluded as of
[00:02:22] yet, but
[00:02:24] of talks are very close to successful
[00:02:27] conclusion as said by Iran's...
[00:02:38] Well basically basically Iran and Oman are designating
[00:02:41] of two roots, inbound lane in the north
[00:02:45] of the straight of formus, completely in Iranian
[00:02:48] territorial waters and an outbound route in southern street
[00:02:52] of formus close to Omani coastal
[00:02:55] waters, report suggests that Iran is going to have full
[00:03:00] control over the northern lane and half
[00:03:02] control over the southern lane. Iran said
[00:03:06] that the previous roots in the straight of
[00:03:10] arms did not guarantee its national security and
[00:03:14] harmed this national security, because Iran argues that the United
[00:03:17] States has used
[00:03:19] the straight of armus for military purposes in the
[00:03:22] past. These two inbound and
[00:03:26] outbound lanes are
[00:03:28] of temporary, they will be valid for. two to four months and then after
[00:03:32] that a permanent median lane will
[00:03:35] be designated and announced by Iran and Oman, so we are waiting
[00:03:39] for the talks to be finalized and for Iran and
[00:03:43] Oman to issue a joint statement about the future
[00:03:47] administration
[00:03:48] of the straight of. President Trump says
[00:03:52] talks with Iran are still ongoing despite Tehran earlier
[00:03:55] denying holding direct negotiations with the
[00:03:58] US. "I'd rather make
[00:04:01] deal because I don't want to kill people, I do not want to
[00:04:05] kill people, but at some point we're going to, we
[00:04:08] had, we were, we were set for the biggest
[00:04:11] attack of any attack, and we've hit them very hard
[00:04:15] for the last few months, but we were, we were all set for the
[00:04:19] biggest attack since World War II, and they called me
[00:04:22] and they said, please don't do it, let's talk, and then they don't, they said, we never
[00:04:26] said that, you know what, the fake news
[00:04:29] of knows they..." did say that, but we are talking, let's see what
[00:04:32] happens. - Craig Boswell is life
[00:04:36] for us now in Washington,
[00:04:38] so Craig, what is the Trump administration right now saying about
[00:04:42] the status
[00:04:46] of of these negotiations with Iran and how close they are claiming deal actually
[00:04:48] is?
[00:04:53] Well, you play that clip there from Donald Trump
[00:04:56] in a campaign stop in Las Vegas, so just a passing reference. from the US
[00:05:00] president tonight cuz he's trying to get back on the economy, but for
[00:05:04] the bigger picture on this on Iran, the US president has
[00:05:08] in the last 24 hours been more than optimistic about this, in fact it was
[00:05:12] less. 24 hours ago, we should said we should know within 48
[00:05:15] hours whether this deal has been struck, saying it is very close uh, we've had
[00:05:19] uh,
[00:05:20] you played the clip that uh most the framework deal has been worked
[00:05:24] out, but the administration falls into kind of two camps here
[00:05:28] right, hope and concern, there is hope that this this gets
[00:05:31] resolved and there's hope that this is something that they can move
[00:05:35] on from and donald trump can claim a win, there is concerned that in
[00:05:39] this deal there will be fees that will be... by Iran,
[00:05:43] something that would be seen as a defeat for US president Donald
[00:05:46] Trump, so that is some that's the other side, they don't want to fall into this, so
[00:05:50] Donald Trump kind of standing in two places here, saying that there is
[00:05:54] deal that is imminent, but yet, as you heard in that clip uh,
[00:05:58] threatening those uh, that this is the last chance for Iran to
[00:06:01] negotiate, or we're going to hit them hard, so still holding out the threat
[00:06:05] while hoping this particular part the differences of opinion over the straight
[00:06:09] of Homus can be worked out soon, back to you, and given the... optimistic tone
[00:06:13] coming from the White House about reaching an agreement with Iran, is
[00:06:17] that confidence genuine or does it appear to be masking deeper
[00:06:21] concerns after previous near
[00:06:23] misses?
[00:06:35] does feel like, and I'll caviot this by saying, we've been here
[00:06:39] before, this does feel like the momentum is moving towards... some
[00:06:42] type of an agreement on the straight of hormos uh
[00:06:46] so that it does feel like that, so this could be the administration
[00:06:50] really on the face expressing optimism. now do they know the details
[00:06:54] of what's in this framework deal, that remains to be seen, so they
[00:06:58] could be playing their cards close to the vest saying, well we hope this works
[00:07:02] out, or they know something and they're just not trying to say too much,
[00:07:05] so we don't know, time will certainly tell, donald trump has said
[00:07:09] we'd know within the 48 hours what's in this at
[00:07:13] perhaps even by Friday, they said earlier this week that we would know by
[00:07:17] Wednesday, so here we are issuing these time frames uh on the
[00:07:21] straightform moves, so they must also feel then that something is
[00:07:24] moving at least in the right
[00:07:46] to be closing in on this deal to uh reopen the straight of
[00:07:49] hm, potentially allowing energy exports to resume
[00:07:53] through one the world's most important shipping lanes, but how significant
[00:07:57] would uh this agreement be for global energy
[00:08:00] markets? mean, the markets have been
[00:08:03] extremely tight ever since the war began, there's been a
[00:08:07] serious serious shortage of of 10 to 12 mbd that has
[00:08:11] just disappeared from global. markets for the last four months and
[00:08:15] even though prices have been kept under control by Chinese release
[00:08:19] of strategic reserves or by Donald Trump's
[00:08:22] oil market manipulation through
[00:08:25] news dropping on Fridays and news dropping on Sundays, the
[00:08:29] overall physical market has been under tremendous
[00:08:33] stress and from the physical market to the products market of
[00:08:37] diesel of of jet fuel, of fertilizers of all the
[00:08:41] things that have been disrupted. in the homus crisis, so any
[00:08:45] deal um, even if it's a temporary one will
[00:08:48] alleviate that stress, and you're a you're
[00:08:51] a net zero guy, so from that perspective, has all this
[00:08:54] disruption on the straight of homo strengthen the argument for
[00:08:58] investing more rapidly away from fossil fuels
[00:09:01] towards renewable energy and alternative supply
[00:09:05] chains, mean i would have said that that
[00:09:09] is a possibility or that is what perhaps government should be
[00:09:12] showing, but the last four months have seen a very
[00:09:16] rapid, not just realization, but action by governments
[00:09:20] towards finding themselves alternative
[00:09:22] supplies, finding themselves cheap and easy
[00:09:26] availability of Chinese clean energy goods of EV, solar
[00:09:30] panels, batteries have surged. In the last four months, we've had
[00:09:34] about 25 billion dollars of sales every month of solar
[00:09:38] panels evs and batteries from China to the rest the
[00:09:42] world. "we've had basically lot of policy being passed by
[00:09:45] governments as they realize that this is just fundamentally a world
[00:09:49] in which fossil fuels are going to be insecure because the United
[00:09:53] States military cannot guarantee their safe and continuous
[00:09:57] passage out the Persian Gulf and so what we've
[00:10:00] seen is governments passing policies and consumers
[00:10:04] taking matters into their own hands and pressing by
[00:10:08] by on those solar panels and EVs that are just
[00:10:11] easily" " accessible: so just just taking
[00:10:15] a more kind of long-term view of this, has this crisis permanently
[00:10:19] changed at all, how governments are going to think about energy
[00:10:22] security? yeah, the main thing is: not, it's not just this
[00:10:26] crisis, right? it's now two fossil fuel shocks in the last four
[00:10:29] years with the Ukraine war having a similarly disruptive
[00:10:33] impact that on gas markets and now on oil
[00:10:36] markets. so what we basically seen is in the face of two
[00:10:40] uncertain shocks, governments all over reconsidering their
[00:10:44] energy policy and basically realizing that they need to
[00:10:48] have source of energy that is not going to be
[00:10:51] as disrupted by geopolitical events. "and
[00:10:55] that one 10 years ago would have been, you would have been hard pressed to say
[00:10:59] that renewables are can satisfy, that's that
[00:11:03] cheapness and that scale, but that's no longer true, they are now easily
[00:11:06] accessible in the 2020s after a bunch of governments,
[00:11:10] European governments, American governments, Chinese governments in particular, have
[00:11:14] passed enormous supports of, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of policy
[00:11:18] support to renewables, so now we are a stage where all governments are
[00:11:21] routinely sort of at every crisis. They have moved
[00:11:25] away from oil and gas towards much more cheaper and stable
[00:11:29] and secure renewable supplies often produced at
[00:11:40] have claimed another attack a Saudi oil tanker, the
[00:11:43] second
[00:11:44] a day. The latest vessel was struck in the Gulf of Aden. Early on
[00:11:48] Wednesday, the group said it fired missiles a tanker in the north the Red Sea
[00:11:52] la. Last month, the hoothies declared naval blockade. Saudi Arabia in
[00:11:56] response to what they describe as a Saudi siege on
[00:11:59] Yemen. Hatim Bazian is a professor of Middle Eastern cultures
[00:12:03] and languages at UC Berkeley. He says the attacks by the
[00:12:07] Houties are impacting maritime
[00:12:09] traffic. Babel mandib uh
[00:12:12] traffic right now is almost down by
[00:12:14] 50%. And
[00:12:18] many ships that are opting to go around to
[00:12:22] the great to the state of. good hope down South
[00:12:26] Africa that delays the trade
[00:12:30] and have an impact, it's also the more important is the insurance, so
[00:12:34] if you gonna navigate through Babel, the insurance
[00:12:37] level on these merchant chips will be
[00:12:41] high, so many will up not to go through it because the cost
[00:12:44] is prohibitive, and I think increasingly there is
[00:12:48] pressure between the straight of hormones being right now subject to
[00:12:52] the current developments in there and and then you have b
[00:12:56] two important chuck points in the global trade
[00:12:59] system which has been actually the the hub of trade
[00:13:03] for almost the past 500 plus years, so I think the
[00:13:07] impact is there. adding to this, I think we need to
[00:13:11] calculate into this dynamics, the development
[00:13:14] in Somaliland and the fact that the
[00:13:18] Israelis with the help of United Arab Emirates are also
[00:13:22] developing some type of base in there. that will have an
[00:13:26] impact, whether that will be brought into the conflict
[00:13:29] immediately, or we're going to see a protracted
[00:13:32] conflict occurring at the babil mandib
[00:13:36] and somali land being brought into
[00:13:39] the navigation and into the ease of trade in that region,
[00:13:43] so I think there are many, many different players that are having
[00:13:46] their hands in the babil mandib and in the
[00:13:50] houthes were attempting to have leverage over their
[00:13:54] positionality. in the conflict with Saudi Arabia that's been on
[00:13:57] for seven
[00:13:58] years.
[00:14:04] Israel has continued its attacks in southern Lebanon despite ongoing
[00:14:08] peace talks in Rome. the strikes also hit targets inside
[00:14:12] designated pilot zone for the withdraw of Israeli troops.
[00:14:16] Israel says it is in response to ceasefire violations from
[00:14:19] Heizbollah who are not included in the talks. at least one person was killed
[00:14:23] in the town of Tebnin. Israel says two of its soldiers were
[00:14:27] also killed in a landmine explosion.
[00:14:31] Israel has also issued new displacement order for village in
[00:14:34] southern Lebanon, which according to the UN, is the first since
[00:14:38] the latest ceasefire announcement in June.
[00:14:42] This new order comes as displaced families have been cautiously making their way back
[00:14:46] to their homes in southern Lebanon in recent weeks, underscoring how
[00:14:50] fragile the situation remains and the uncertainty that people continue to
[00:14:54] face. Hostilities continue to affect civilians in southern
[00:14:57] Lebanon. Demolition operations, shelling and other military activity
[00:15:01] are damaging homes, agricultural land and civilian
[00:15:04] infrastructure. Many families are returning to severely damaged
[00:15:08] homes, limited access to essential services, economic
[00:15:12] hardship, and the threat posed by unexploded
[00:15:15] ordinance. Aprianka Navani has more in this
[00:15:19] from the Lebanese Capital, Beirot. Well, absolutely,
[00:15:23] this is not what one wants. to see happening on the
[00:15:26] ground when the diplomats in Rome are trying to
[00:15:30] further this peace accord that was struck on June the
[00:15:34] 26th, this framework between the U.S.
[00:15:37] Israel and Lebanon, these were very intense strikes, and it comes
[00:15:41] off of a week that things were already escalating in
[00:15:45] southern Lebanon. In fact, one the things that we saw Israel do
[00:15:49] in southern Lebanon today was issue this so-called
[00:15:53] evacuation order, which here in Lebanon is called
[00:15:56] a displacement order, calling on people to...