Images have shown passengers sleeping on airport floors as more than 300 flights were cancelled on Wednesday after Tuesday’s technical problem at air traffic control.

Some 1,750 flights were cancelled on Tuesday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium, with hundreds of thousands of passengers affected by the chaos.

Nats, the air traffic control provider, has apologised for the issue – the firm’s boss Martin Rolfe says there will be an investigation.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s spokesman says the government has confidence in Rolfe and they’re expecting to see a report into the issue in a week’s time.

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Iranian forces claim to have seized a “state of the art” unmanned US submersible at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.

Qatar says it is working with partners around the world to restart peace talks between the United States and Iran.

In Yemen, an escalation in fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-supported government forces leaves hundreds dead and tens of thousands of people displaced.

And the boss of Dubai International Airport says he’s “very confident” about the future, as passengers return to the hub despite continued uncertainty in the region.

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On Tuesday, the UK government announced sweeping sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and accused settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing.’

Soon after, 11 other countries, including Canada, France, Spain and Poland, announced a ban on goods imported from illegal settlements.

In response, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said there would “without a doubt” be a reaction from the US, adding that the move could have a “huge economic impact on British businesses.”

What do the sanctions suggest about the US’s complex relationship with its western allies?

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks with BBC State Department correspondent Tom Bateman about the diplomatic consequences of US allies sanctioning the West Bank.

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0:00 Introduction
1:00 Tom Bateman discusses what Ed Miliband said
4:30 Ed Miliband talks about his own Jewish identity
6:42 Why is the government now taking this stance against the illegal settlers?
10:47 What is the E1 settlement?
12:30 How was the Israeli government reacted to the trade ban?
16:18 How has the Trump administration responded?
18:55 American anti-BDS laws
20:16 Why are boycotts such an issue for pro-Israeli lobbyists?
23:22 What does the muted Trump response mean?

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September 11 marked a shift in the American psyche, and altered the way the United States saw its place in the world. Shortly after the attacks, President George W Bush announced the ‘war on terror’, a policy that would implicate the United States in multiple wars, on multiple fronts, in the Middle East over the next 25 years.

But was this the US reaction that al-Qaeda had planned for? And as the US entered into more wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, are the unintended consequences of the ‘war on terror’ still threatening the US today?

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks to Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent, about the event that still dominates US foreign policy today.

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