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nice to me people have been killed and dozens more wounded and on call authorities are trying to oust anti government protest is as fine as a unit said a lot to set to face corruption charges. back to the negotiating table and unsecured program is at the top of the agenda in piano and twelve pallets trying to broker an agreement with its hat on. ukrainian protests is reported the attack the party headquarters the president began a club its bases such as breakout at the huntington she and chris liked all correspondence. the democrats trouble they text. hi welcome to fostering cats. i'm already a clear sky straight steele told the story talks on iran's controversial new kit program starting in vienna today. iranian officials are due to meet with negotiators from six other well how is this three
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months of that enron agreed to cut the ring and enrichment in exchange for the test of international sites and the follow on this story up into action the fact that saddam had that joins me in this tj had done the talks was surprised that an os three days but already thinking of extending them i was not expect. this has never been a pc talks of this nature there are so many issues at play here a ruler i mean look at what is interim deal is this engine deal was with a six month holding pattern. they essentially what you said agreed back in november. they said they're buying time. you are buying time until they could sorta figured out a way to sit down and agree on the so called war crime and anti shia staff of more longer range deal is good by not protecting its own nuclear standoff. it's not to be resolved overnight soak lot of people saying the six months the deadline i think is late july to like twenty two ambitious a more realistic time frame might actually be anywhere from one to two teeth in three years on what's going on right now as you can have them sitting down talking about
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organizational issues that ethical issues when we start watching we prioritize when should we prioritize these different issues. and that's the that's wits can get tricky we had a report come out from the eye of the un watchdog it's the iaea international atomic energy agency saying that basically since november. red has been complying to the best of their ability to determine that so far with this into an agreement. their stockpile of the woods called low roof will be refined uranium has gone up slightly. back to the little watering is saying you might raise your eyebrows but they say the only reason that that has happened is because this plant that suppose to convert that into harmless powder has been delayed in its construction to nothing really to worry about a sickly so far and seems to be on same page in compliance record of what happened there till it actually reads what this is yet why are we having the stocks in the press played straight. the fear is to avoid basically the middle east war. we've had there a lot there no accidents no shortage of talks on in the region and also in
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washington as well yet a lot of senators and congress pushing extremely hard saying good steals over before it even begins. they want the sanctions now as opposed to later he cannot really wanna wait they do not want to give the rams benefit of doubt in iran itself that of gary hardline school which are dead set against a sovereign heidi the new iranian president. they think that he's made too many concessions already they want nothing to do with the steel see a hapless hardliners on both sides any of israel obviously standing at the cadet ababa is basically barack obama ii is out of his death he doesn't know what he's doing his mates judging water into intentions out which israel would insist is to build upon. don't be fooled. we all remember of benjamin netanyahu at the un that they miss out on chalk great saying they're almost there it's called breakout capacity. see you have this threat of a middle east war and this is what happens if these talks break down your back to step one. the clocks ticking again. you can have all the sights and especially the hardline voices the hawkish side saying see we told you so talks failed
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you can trust her and get to do something about it right these tolls on the closing credits that amongst the hardliners in the us and iran. this is all thinking i was telling about how in washington and iran right now you at those sites a deal over on you know don't why he can talk to us khamenei the supreme leader on the eve of the stock basically saying well i'm not opposed to sitting down at the mall cop let them you know have had their way but these talks are basically doomed to fail they destined to fail and even if we get a nuclear agreement with united states on the woodstove in at the same issues still to be hostile to the fact that we are is an islamic republic. it still can have the same deep seated animosity towards us it's not really cannot solve anything you think this is getting the biggest obstacle going to every step of the way in these talks as a talking bout enrichment as a talking bout inspections as a talking abattoir and disabling the speed plants at a rock at the fort in the underground bunker as they try to tackle these issues. everywhere you look at having people and places putting pressure on both sides trying to thwart
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the talks trying to show that one of the other side isn't that bad state and trying to prove that he was no reason in the first place to put any stock in iran's assurances that he is acting in good faith it can be extremely difficult and like i said they will need an extended deadline that's almost every diplomat is already saying i got a thank you very much for that and iss. gunshots ten gas on bomb shrapnel in bangkok and the staff who may protest is that three people have been killed as authorities try to pit demonstrations security forces deployed at fifteen thousand men and several hot spots including government house correspondent is now wolf brings us and then a text from the heart of the protests. what other to go to a creep who fired the shots but there were two explosions in the situation was extremely tense. but a couple of hours ago that the situation has calmed down a bit but that usually
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accounting of the stuff you stick the people it and tweak it so far into that question according to prime minister units to know what to stand down season have contractions and that is what the anti corruption body and says it will fall to the charges against at work touches a sheep they saying. official neglect in the right place to eat rice subsidy scheme was set in motion that by the administration zero at the ticket price is too bright spot in the country they are in very much the backbone of the companies are rushing to st utah that was until recently the world's number one ride to school to it that they can move forward with this in private. the prime minister will have to step down before any investigation is taking place because she's officially inducted on the charges and is really present another big problem for the caretaker government that they called elections in every second try and push forward. and reinstate them
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and they too will the protesters managed to book a lot of the boat around the country and eleven on the card can beat it the caretaker prime minister is a duck to this he said but not too hot to corruption commission on utilities. they really take another big big problem the government of the fort worth taking a constitutional crisis that he put it on the street the court action is trying to pull the province to step down if you don't do that. so on. coming to look at the country will be faced with that with the wood. a power vacuum in the center then it's unclear how the country commercial about the pitch without more tommorow and that it is that the police were back to a can of accommodation. we may see more. by that on the streets of the capital. in south korea and the state and people have been crushed to death is the roof of an auditory and collapsed. they state as opposed to the students is just an old idea that's tmi attending a welcoming ceremony on monday evening. at least a hundred people it purports to be an
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agent as rescue workers tries to pull survivors from the rubble. throughout the nineteen nineties beneath heavy snow caused the accident. things aren't getting any bets that hot weather keeps the ring of steel ethics. ukraine and trade taxes have reportedly attacked the party has quit as president called h this as riot police is find a brother but it's a crowd of people protesting in front of parliament in kiev. some twenty thousand protesters marched from the iconic independence led towards parliament demanding and peace to bite and strip president chemical bits of the talents of us think that's gonna crack is covering this story for as donovan. two more bodies in the discussions. it will be protected. other than total possible by treaty but that didn't get that prompted them to the actual building by a drive to the weekend they have to start paying google fight we could report the dr
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he has been eating robot with a five ten the team at least one character that are a lot of folk tale never will the report and photographic evidence albeit true that that the company men who are on the roofs of buildings throwing hand grenades down from the region. and of course the current uptrend and biking going on with the ukrainian protected to ensure the best team in the kitchen to a hospital but the minute urea get greedy and to many many of the world which makes it possible that other than double from the gun. that's the case to decide the continent a new senior position breaking its connectivity that. yet that the region cannot be simply wanted to vote on the constitutional reform which had been proposed that the ideal position to date and the department of the road. he is depicted on the agenda. the opposition to the table to the people of the rostrum and prevent others from working and tell
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him that he can do about the agreed depicted on the agenda for that. what better way to school today went to the city meant he had actually told me that he hoped that the protective force their way into the parliament building. if he hadn't been picked in the creek for the part of the agenda. another representative of the far right foot but he told me that he would have to be convinced that to the un and the reason why does he care for she depicted on the agenda. beat together to detect opened up to the cooker in attendance with a straight after his party would do about that couple that with the decreasing number of a bit of it but he would rebel. like the opposition. it's exciting match that of dates that was the government would invest in kiev ukraine. south sudanese rebel forces have stormed into my house the captain of the oil producing state of denial according to minutes before says that the rebels didn't respect the ceasefire rival factions had signed a truce last month but bayside keep accusing each other inviting
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him to get since mid december that thousands of people being killed and one in eight hundred thousand displaced finance case of quotas of presence of a style that can against the rebellion led by his farm another to react with shock. authorities accuse him of trying to orchestrate a coat something that shocked the knights. all right let's bring our attention to the central african republic string string sunday to extend that nation on the ground. it's go time to think on that is ravaging the country and really does sum up comes out the fronds to maintain its manage the operation until the next elections in twenty fifteen. this is the humanitarian crisis keeps growing according to the un more than a million people the support of the population is in need of a. this list on saturday at his home key markets. and it's on like she gets much busier increasingly potential customers and central african republic's capsule of being
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put off by soaring prices widespread violence on blitzing means goods on toys making it to their destinations. we want he said money and we can have custom this weekend. its weapons are being paid the money for sentencing and that peace can come to the market while in atlanta the french delegation arrived in bondi on monday catching up their assistance paris is said to send up of the four hundred soldiers to help bring stability on the ground dots in addition to sixteen hundred troops to help already being deployed acting central african republic presents katherine some of pounds of force them to stay until elections which is scheduled for twenty fifteen bucks no decision will be made until french ministers gather in his home in ash now in a week's time they should be reinforcements coming from the un. because if we have a peacekeeping operation. more
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soldiers. and then there will be the main components how innocent african authorities to establish thank god the additional french troops and helicopters a center right from bases in even a pinch of which peaked in the coming days. they're expected to combat the spread of violence and more relates regions. the interim government and the french on the face a race against mine rainy season starts in april and will the courts of the population is already in urgent need of thing. the sky at the sky might be ok bout his luxury apartments of the box again and now with ronson says he never wants to travel with the diplomatic possible. which is an argentinian id she once held as the decals on the printing press the new passports for young argentine citizens and an older one search and jorge mario big rodeo. keep peace and hope. the contest and normally carries a diplomatic
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passport issued by the vatican but francaise has decided to re new resort we are sent into force. current plans to use it on his troubles. the point of pride in for the government's interior ministry released this video from this house forests and national identity card team needs him to go through the region are application process including fingerprinting current insisted on teen dream you'll feed himself. this line from says he's keen to hold on to his roots. in a bid to steal the image of the scope of the people he says. that wraps up this edition as more news coming out shortly said that guy. hello and welcome to the interview. it seems that last year as they're the obama administration was disengaged and from syria backing away from airstrikes
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against the assad regime and allowing red wines to be crossed on the use of chemical weapons. but in his state of the union speech a few weeks ago that president obama gave hints of a more muscular approach to supporting mystery unravels something that may have been given fresh impetus by the deadlock the geneva peace talks and that is austin's humanitarian situation in homes and elsewhere on the ground. take a closer look at the us direction on syria. i'm joined by fear s max side. he's a political consultant in washington d c and a former safety at the ambassador dennis ross the former u s middle east presidential envoy to stay with the international relations committee of the us house of representatives welcome to the programs that a few days ago to the us ambassador to the un talks about around forty thousand people reportedly being killed in syria. just since the geneva to talks began in
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the woods of samantha power was the most concentrated period of killing in the meat on a generation of the conflict. g thing to me that she's actually making things worse is that links to this death toll perhaps. but i know it's making things worse but it's only now making things any better these thoughts one would say a word deadlock from the get go and always are transmitting on the ground which is which are referred to was the actual actually the regime intensifying its bombing using barrel palms over aleppo on the only thing that came out of the witch one possibly can say was a silver lining is that very limited agreement that both our homes is that any jaunts to the us can do rule perhaps to help broker a political truce is a will somehow help to ease the lives of some of the syrians who are living on the siege. brett. i mean
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there are two pa sunday and these two possible approaches to this one tbs sit back and do damage control and all of this war to drag on an essentially by a large bets with this industry has been doing for the past three years. it says please try to minimize the spillover effect into neighboring lebanon and iraq and jordan and also turkey and israel. um but that only means that a human tragedy and the instability that is inflicting the region will continue when we have millions of refugees almost half of the syrian population has now been displaced by the internal report to elsewhere in the region. so that's one approach but what i'm from what i insist on adsense is a feeling that added pressure needs to grow be brought to bear on the syrian regime for it to start moving. if we're to have it any chance at a diplomatic breakthrough in negotiations between the regime and the opposition that stuff with the assessor of dogs jump a map. i could say that we can take a quick listen to president obama as
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comments on syria at the estates of the union address in late january. in syria will support the opposition that rejects the agenda of networks. we will continue to work with the international community to usher in the future of the syrian people deserve. a future free of dictatorship terror and fear. soaring words but what does that really mean gee think that's true that's a sign of view of providing more lethal assistants to rebels and insights into which ones. so that's the big question that's what the policy folks here in washington dc are trying to find out whether this is really an inflection point and president obama policy toward syria turning point that is meaningful or whether in fact it is just some tactical change. my sense is that the broader strategy this administration remains unchanged. um has his best for the president obama is national security adviser
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susan rice but it late last year when doubt be the president calls for a call for a few of his middle east policy. she said that we are trying to save costs. i hope president obama from being dragged into yet another middle eastern war this administration from the very get go was interested in ending wars in the middle east. not being engaged in new ones is often said that president obama is more interested in the middle class here in the not states an economic revival in development. then they are interested in the middle east percent. so that's that and from what we know but this administration. i think that we might have some changes on the sidelines i think we might see some lethal weapon being supplied to more moderate rebel forces especially in on the southern front. where oh five that each of the most snow ice is some of the more radical group or groups are weaker than they are up north but um began. i think it's on the sidelines is to bring
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added pressure. the strategy on syria doesn't change which is the trying get to a negotiated political settlement between the regime on one hand and the opposition say you sense a small tactical shifts that do you think that shift is going to be ok with the us opinion which of course is firmly against any war or in syria that's been borne out by numerous opinion polls would she think even a slight change brings all was said providing some relief to assistance by cooperating with the jordanians on the front where the jihadist groups less awful. katie them at the scene on a war weary us as the thin end of the wedge. you know that there was a very telling story coming out of a unique data security conference last week where um the secretary of state john kerry a man with a number of members of the senate the us senate and congress in which they've been known to support a stronger mole robust us
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approach this area i'm thinking about john mccain mccain and lindsey graham of this year and it said in a carrier for is the situation and said well what are your constituents think are your constituents supportive of a more robust policy on syria and of course here this is a great degree of selling the policy that the white house nee the congress need to do to educate us as to why it's important for the us for u s national interest to act on syria. now that said i think being able to up sell. i did spend the full support to the to the us radical groups to the moderate opposition is that much easier than it is to opt to sell us strikes or to another war and at least it is that you're absolutely right the us will not stand for christmas and i won't bring in one of the plant which is a very important one in this country that's the wrong. and of course this is something that us foreign policy makers have their eye on idol is there any appetite
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g cents. within the foreign policy community is this some kind of appetite of any calling for a grand bargain with iran that would come to among other things syria and hezbollah. it is a very appealing proposition it does come up in conversations. um however there is also an acknowledgment that should we open that box. should we start negotiating with the iranians on this blog all security on the oven to energy supplies on lebanon and hezbollah on syria and so on so forth that that would really come to complicate what is the major issue on the agenda here which is the nuclear program. um so this administration has has had a preference to focus solely on the nuclear program given that the deal on that issue in itself. is an opera about. and the president would pay to find himself in
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a year's time or you're in a half's time having to conduct military strikes against iran by himself and all and yet another middle east war because there is real pressure on him both in washington from congress and chapel hill and from some of his allies in the region to go in that direction. so it's the nuclear program that's the focus for now. perhaps perhaps in some side conversations that are off the record that we don't know of. there is talk about syria but again i don't i don't perceive it to be the driving issue and presumably given that he's getting to visit saudi arabia. in march that would suggest that the administration isn't all going to open that whole books as you could at any time soon. iam glad you brought up relationship with that with the saudis that is relationship that washington's views as very strategic of sutter it is an important player in the region and a player that is not at all that happy with the ongoing negotiations
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engagement but washington is currently having with its arch rival in the region the hat on. so the president has a lot of soothing to do there especially that the saudis broker openly with washington in the past year on several issues one of which was syria they were very disappointed how present on bomb backed away from conducting air strikes on not on syria at a time when french president along seemed to ready to go inside is very much appreciated that president obama threw that ball in the laps of congress and then backed away from it but also on egypt where it began a very important and pivotal country in the region and where on the side arabia has been more firmly backing the president of the eos are the military there who might become president and general cc. any americans have a very different point of view to the same number of issues as relates to the us saudi fruition a relationship not only syria that present obama will have to soothe out and has said this in next march
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it's interesting point to make about the links between them that this allergy and b that the ministry backed government in egypt you think of that. that relationship between the saudis and egyptians today is one reason why president obama didn't repeat of the rhetoric that he had first given in his landmark speech in cairo in two thousand and one we'll remember that was a big one of our reach towards the arab world. paying tribute to the arab spring and then suddenly in the space of the union address. egypt is known even mentioned that school. absolutely and the non smiling here because of you know i bought a bunch of us policy wonks in this town were taken to twitter as the president was given his stated the union address that he was a very lively debate on social media. umm about the lack of mention of use it instead of being in such a pivotal country in the middle east and again when the president gave his landmark address of the most the moral of the new know that the different points of view one point of view which i understand is that while
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yes the white house had nothing good to say about each of these actions are going to be pissed off that the united states whether they chose the one back party one party or the other and saying you know the same applies to u s allies in the region where the saudis in the israelis and others seems to be more favorable towards one party or the other. so it seemed that the white house judge that this this this this is an issue that they cannot win so they decided to keep quiet about it and it's very telling. very telling about the sea the status of top of the u s standing in the region and how it's choosing to disengage from pivotal issues and moving away from from back saying that the arabs bring a sense of peace to the elite who will have to end it that we now run at a time and thank you so much beer and snacks at managing director of global policy of voices joining me from washington dc d stay tuned on strikeouts
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discussed issues of the implementation of the cars the president's instructions which was set and a large meeting of the cabinet of ministers last friday to darken it up as instructed state agencies to ensure cost management stressing that the first leaders carry personal responsibility for the complaints relating to the adjustment of the national currency exchange rate. the prime minister stressed that is necessary to ensure the stability of prices for basic food products and social import goods fuel medicine and also to prevent shortage of products and unjustified
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