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Sunday, August 18, 2019

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 8/18-MONDAY 8/19/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH LATE SUNDAY)

Hundreds of thousands gathered at Victoria Park Sunday in the latest protest against Chinese government policies in Hong Kong. A peaceful protest as China's government has massed paramilitary forces on the territory's border.

Protesters gathered in the rain using umbrellas which have become a symbol of the protest movement in Hong Kong.

An Iranian oil tanker is on the move leaving the British territory of Gibraltar more than one month after it was seized.

Gibraltar earlier rejected a US request to detain the Iranian tanker that it decided to free. The US Justice Department issued a warrant Friday to seize the "Grace 1" claiming it was transporting oil to Syria in violation of sanctions.

The local authorities in the British territory cited adherence to European Union sanctions on Iran, which are different from the US ones.

Gibraltar decided to allow the tanker to leave its waters Sunday night and has said it had promises from Iran that no oil would be delivered to Syria.

But Iran's foreign ministry says it has made no such promises.

In addition, the tanker is now flying the Iranian flag and has been renamed the "Adrian Darya 1" with Iran saying it is prepared to use its navy to protect the ship.

Again The Latest Word Is That The Tanker Is On The Move. Here is the story from Iran's "Press TV"......LINK

From the war in Syria government forces in the northwest continue to make progress in an offensive against opposition jihadist forces.

On Sunday they entered the key town of Khan Shaykoun in Idlib province.

Spain is proposing to allow 107 migrants to enter the country at the port of Algeciras. They are part of a the hundreds on multiple ships that have been picked up in recent weeks off the coast of Libya.

On Saturday Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini agreed to allow a group of 27 teenage migrants to disembark on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

The Battle of Brexit. A disaster scenario has been laid out in leaked British government documents if there is a "No-Deal" Brexit.

Food, fuel and medicine shortages are all predicted in documents revealed by the "Sunday Times".

The BBC reports on the story.....LINK

The war in Yemen with Saudi Arabia's oil fields being targeted by the Iranian backed Houthi rebels.

The Houthi drone attack on a major oil field this weekend is said to to have caused limited damage.

An Israeli satellite company released images of the Shaybah oil field following the attack.

The feminist icon Gloria Steinem says she isn't traveling to Israel, at least while Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister.

That is Steinem's reaction to Israel's decision to bar Democrat congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting the country.

She posted an open letter on Twitter reacting to the Israeli ban.

And an official statement from Buckingham Palace saying Prince Andrew is "appalled" at the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein.

The statement follows publication of a video said to show the prince at Epstein's home in New York in 2010.

Numerous pictures linking Prince Andrew to Epstein have been published and a woman who says she was exploited by Epstein when she was a teenager says that she was ordered to have sex with the prince.