The US has launched what it's calling a humanitarian mission to protect freight ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Project Freedom - as US President Donald Trump has dubbed it - aims to free some of the 2,000 ships currently stuck in in the Strait, with 20,000 seafarers believed to be stranded on board in dangerous conditions.

• Guests: Manoj Yadav, General Secretary of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India and Salman, Indian Seafarer
• Producer: Eddy Diamond