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EU exploring ‘plan B’ Ukraine funding as Hungary threatens to veto €50bn aid package – BBC News
The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@morganeriksson5842
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Orban is a " TROJAN HORSE ", and will continue help putin as long as it takes. Believe me ! EU cant allow that ! Give Ukraine all help it needs.
@shelleywinters6763
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
not fatigue far right putin enablers
@gghhh-hr3xu
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Orban's government was directly ivolved in electoral campains in Ukraine, because he wants Hungarh to be great again, by incorporating parts of Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia etc.
You can see maps around hungary displayed in public spaces with the former kingdom of Hungary, together with messages of regret , of nostalgia, and why not, hopes for the future, to be great again one day.
Orban and his supporters are just full of 💩
@sebseb-bx7rh
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Well done Hungary 🇭🇺👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Zelensky regime would steal the money!
@tahirmohamed4621
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Ilike thid man zallanski bast arab leder
@BobsArtGallery
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Finish this theater, give Putin what he wants, save lives and money. Zelensky has played enough "Hero of the west" now, so let him go back to his original profession as a clown. 😄
@musadube1647
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
EU membership won't be discussed over a cup of coffee but on the battlefield unless EU is prepared to go toe to toe and I doubt very much if they would like that
@SergioK111
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Politicians can send money to their families
@manojthaker3678
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
America has hired Ukraine contractors to do Russia job for them. Now Ukraine must be paid or ?? 🤯
@imbetterthanyou5745
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Queers for Ukraine. ‘I support the current thing’
@user-qn8hl7cp8f
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
They are all corrupt the lot of them😂😂. BBC are you sure they are not far right 😂😂😂
@nickpope8056
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Zelensky is such a pathetic loser
@BJARNE-SOLBERG
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
UKRAINE, EU & US…THE NEW ORDER AND THE FINAL ENDGAME ….Not difficult to understand
It should be clear to any independent analyst that the war in Ukraine has been planned for decades. The powers that control the Western economy are well aware that we have approached the ultimate limit of what the West is capable of handeling. The U.S. has deliberately not accepted Russia's transformation into the new Russia. The U.S. has exploited Russia as an external enemy to politically achieve its long-term strategic goals of maintaining world domination.
Using NATO as a tool and Europe as a henchman, the goal has always been to envelop Russia and thus facilitate the break-down and, in the long run, the dissolution of the current Russia in order to access its natural resources. World domination cannot exist without constant influxes of natural resources. In order to "dissolve" the difficulties that had arisen in the eastern regions of Ukraine, the collective West turned a blind eye to the ethnic problems and allowed Ukraine to bomb and murder tens of thousands of Russians in these regions.
Biden was appointed as the "Defender of Ukraine" even before the U.S. involvements in the 2014 coup. That proofs that the U.S. early realized the opportunities to exploit the unrest to achieve its goals. The fact that Biden has been personally allowed to do “private business” with Ukraine has, of course, spurred him on to do a good job. To pour oil on the unrest and delay Russia's involvements "peace agreements" were staged with Russia, Misk1, and Minsk2. These would give the U.S. time to militarily rearm and politically control Ukraine ahead of the planned war we now experiencing. The fact that the Minsk agreements were merely a sham is today publicly attested. We should remember that the disarmament and arms restrictions agreements that have existed between Russia and the United States have been unilaterally broken by the United States, so that they do not stand in the way of the forthcoming efforts to break Russia and then China.
The fact that the collective West has now deliberately allowed itself to be raped, shows that the EU is only America's obedience states and that we stand up to defend today's world (un)order. This time, however, events have evolved in an un predicted way so that the world is being divided into the old West and the New East. The new East does not dance to US choreography and the total world is now seeing a new phase in its development. The old must die and the new must emerge. The US is facing a total economic disaster as the new East is about to exclude the petrodollar and thus the US is fundamentally threatened. We now have a Russia that has always been bullied by the West and a United States that is struggling not to perish. The bullied nation has eaten itself strong and will no longer tolerate its tormentor. On the other side we have the great power US that fears its doom and desperately try to stay in power.
The war in Ukraine and all the Western sanctions against Russia have taken a turn that the collective West did not expect. It has hastened the eastern countries' association against the United States, to such an extent that they have put Washington in a predicament, from which it has difficulty wriggling. The war in Ukraine cannot be lost by Russia for natural reasons and the US/NATO has to battle on Russia's backyard. The EU has committed collective suicide and is now desperately trying to hold on to NATO, which they believe is their lifeline.
A NATO that is full of a bunch of star-studded military personnel and member countries with micro-armies leaning on empty weapons stores.
The EU machine and the mainstream media have brainwashed their inhabitants, making it possible to implement their insane decisions. The majority in the West do not understand what will happen to them as a result of sanctions, economic misery and unrests that will be spread throughout Europe.
There is a glimmer of ridicule shining over our the Swedish Military Supreme Commander when he proudly, on TV, says that Sweden is prepared to take the first blow in the event of an attack…. How stupid can a Supreme Commander be? We have no army and there will be no attack from the East. Please Supreme Commander you are already defeated by the USA without you knowing it!
So now we will see US continuing urge the collective West to send weapons to UKRAINE in smal portions just enough to keep the war going, with the purpose to weakening Russia to the brink of collapse. We do not care about the hundred of thousands Ukrainians that are and will be killed iin this madness.
Wake up before it is to late… we are been raped by the US.
@aytencatik57
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Europeans have never been asked to give their opinion on enlargement to Ukraine. Let's hope the negotiations fail. Although Ukraine in the European Union would be a good thing in the sense that it would precipitate the collapse of the EU and the disappearance of this structure. But I fear that the fanatics in power are as crazy as Zelensky and don't care about the consequences of their madness. Germany on the brink of collapse and France completely at the bottom will not be able to finance a country like Ukraine which would cost more than all the others combined. Shame on European bureaucrats!
@aytencatik57
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Popular support for Ukraine in Western countries (Europe and North America) is dwindling due to economic problems and increasing dissatisfaction among Western populations, as opinion polls show. European politicians are now calling for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia so that a peace agreement can be reached and gas deliveries from Russia to the EU can be resumed. Western politicians are apparently reducing funding to Ukraine to put pressure on the Ukrainian regime. There is no plan B!
@user-zt8ur8dp2j
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
In plain Russian / English – the campaign in Ukraine will continue no matter what, and at the same time the West is still afraid of any escalation on its own part. It is a sheer nonsense.
@tony3760758956
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Great example of why we should be close allies with free trade deals. So we don't all get crippled when one starts veering in a different direction
@3x157
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
It will take years before Ukraine will join the block. Obviously, it will be about 10 years from now. The aid has an easy solution. All EU countries can send aid individually it does not have to be approved by the EU. This was done in the beginning. I think it's more important for Ukraine to join NATO once the war is over and they are ready to be part of the block and pledge allegiance to the West's interests.
@Scrooge1erAOA
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Thank you Hungary!
@Kaynewells
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Feels so fake
@ely-xt6fn
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Zelinski should ask his Ukrainian highly corrupted oligarchs for money they're all billionaires and they never paid taxes so he knows where to get the money plus he could pitch in as his wealth increased by a lot in the last year somehow do you know why, not from his president income, take a guess… Zielinski never would've be that aggressive with the war if Biden didn't had to cover up his sounds dirty deals in Ukraine and promise Zelinski as much money as he need and more, in highly corrupted Ukrainian you never would know where Money went to…
@gyulagalos9221
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
ORBAN GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT! BUT HE STILL A BEST EUROPEAN LEADER
@mssv19123
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
10 billion here 10 billion there….
@jimlewis2395
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Zelensky just spent 75 million on luxury yachts for himself hahahahahaha SUCKERS!!!!!
@kyehusky5096
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Maybe the sock puppet zilenski can stat a go fund me page
@robertradwanski7982
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
No FOR UKRAINE IN eu, HELL FOR UKRAINE, ONLY HELL
@HAZandSAZ
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Hungarian Heros!
@yuraryabkov
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
It is clear that the EU is America's puppet. Urban cares about his country, and he doesn't care about the puppet regime of Europe. He's doing the right thing.
@williemyapfc8905
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
EU still very rich while US already funding fatigue.
EU can separately donate bypassing Orban's veto.
@magorzataromanowska8998
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
There is a very simple way to get Hungary to support this payment to Ukraine… The EU leaders should stop using the payment/non-payment of money intended for Hungary as a blackmail tool, and Ukraine should stop persecuting the Hungarian minority on its territory. Believe me, it will have a much better effect than all these hysteria about Putin, Russia, veto etc.
@tanabhensley
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Ukraine is the most corrupt country! Stop sending money. Stop listening to the main stream propaganda media!
@marvinsmith2116
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
EU needs to consider Putin overall plan. Orban isn’t their political ally.
@unifiedvision999
December 17, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Just kick Hungary out of the EU already for crying out loud. He is obviously a dictator.