in new york, he was listening to the president conference by frederica mogherini. very technical detail being given out by mig mowing reason toy begin with. not too much victoriousness are triumphant agreement. >> reporter: no, this is an agreed statement. frederica mowing rinne from the e.u. representing the nations negotiating with the iran, the so culled p5 plus one, the e.u. prefer i call them the e3 plus three. but they are the five permanent members of the u.n. security council, the u.s., russia, china, u.k. and france plus germany. and on the other side iran, yes, it's not a -- a statement that has much sort of congratulations in it and that's because it's an agreed diplomatic statement that both sides agreed and as you are hearing right now, in the parisian language, the iranian foreign minute i minister is ret the exact same words the key message this after the agreement since last summer the agreement has been checked and iran did exactly what it was supposed to do by this stage to make its nuclear facilities, not available for use with weapons, but only f

iran the united states and the european union will be meeting, john kerry, javad zarif and frederica mogherini are having talks, whether the u.n. has delivered under its obligations of the deal. >>> gang raping women in burundi, while searching opposition supporters in december acknowledge including one in a military camp said to contain the bodies of more than 100 people who were reportedly killed last month. >>> meanwhile four army generals accused of being behind a failed coup in may have been sentenced to life in prison. they're among 20 military officers on trial for attempting to unseat president pierre nkurunziza. >>> u.s. health officials have issued a travel warning for 14 countries in the caribbean and latin america. they are at risk for a mosquito born virus, pregnant women have been told to avoid traveling to the areas where the zika virus have been proven to cause damage to unbosh infants. lucia newman reports. >> holding babies with one thing in common. they were born with noticeably smaller than normal heads. it's called microcephaly, a condition that severely limits the a child

there were no pictures of the actual meeting between frederica mogherini and the ambassador, but he wasy of the p.r. value giving interviews straight afterwards. at the same time, mrs. mogherini headed to the united nations for a meeting with special envoy stefan de mistura. she made it clear she had met both sides in geneva and that there was no change to e.u. policy. why did you decide to choose this moment to reward the assad regime with such a high-profile meet something. >> our support to the opposition has not only been in place for the last five years, but is going to be there also for the future. and this is something we discussed. as i said, what i have done today is consist, fully consistent with what we decided together as the european union to actively support the work of the united nations and in particular of stefan de mistura in bringing the negotiations forward 67 despite high representative me reason reasomogherini'sfirm position ta change in e.u. policy. but i have spoken to diplomats from a number of different country who his say they are surprised she held this meeti

earlier this evening, i sat down with frederica mogherini, the e.u.'s top diplomat. she is in washington for a donor conference, raising money for humanitarian aid to iraq. thanks for joining us. >> thank you very much for inviting me. >> sreenivasan: all right, so first things first. in the past week, turkey has been going through a significant amount of turmoil. there was an attempted coup, they have detained and fired tens of thousands of people, they are now declaring a state of emergency, and they're saying they want to bring back the death penalty. aren't these the type of violations of human rights or civil liberties that should stop them from becoming a member of the e.u.? >> what is happening in turkey is extremely important for europe and america and we were saying together with secretary kerry as it was important to stop the coup, it is very important that the reaction to the coup is one that takes into consideration human rights, rule of law, and we're seeing in these days things that are completely unacceptable, being that against the word of university

there was no pictures of the actual meeting between frederica mogherini and bashar al jaffray. at the same time, mrs. mogherini headed to the united nations for a special meeting with staffan de mistura. she made it clear she met with both sides and there was no change. >> why did you decide this meeting such a high profile meeting? >> our support for the united nations is not just there but for the future, something we discussed, as i said what i've done today is consistent, fully consistent with what we decided together as the european union, to actively support the work of the united nations, and in particular, of staffan de mistura, in bringing the negotiations forward. >> reporter: despite high representative mogherini's firm position that this is not a change in eu policy i can tell you i've spoken to diplomats from a number of different countries, who say they're surprised that she held this meeting. in particular, there is only supposed to be one negotiator in this process. after almost two weeks in geneva, the opposition say he has not even started to discuss the key i

today the eu's foreign policy chief, frederica mogherini revealed a $109 million package to support the 98 sent military. logistical support but no ground troops. >> we agreed that a libyan response determined by the libyan unity that can be supported in the way the lynnians will determine by international union and also by the european union but it has to be libyan led and based on the libyan oournt. united nations. >> the libyan unity government is turnlgt base currently baseda because of security concerns. >>> an i.s.i.l. fighter has apparently killed his own mother. in raqqa, i.s.i.l.'s de facto capital in syria. >>> fingerprint belonging to the main suspect in the paris attack. investigators said there is no way to tell when fugitive salla abdeslam left the print. drove abdeslam after the attack. officials seized vests and found traces of explosives at the apartment. 130 people were killed in the november attacks. >>> an arab israel citizen was killed in a shootout today. authorities tracked him to an abandoned building in his northern home town of arara, al jazeera's imtiaz tyab h

frederica mogherini is in turkey and assured the government that billions of dollars of help will soonome turkey's way. >> the talks are ongoing. i'm very much confident that the amount that was decided will be there, in very reasonable timing. in between, the formal decision that was taken in december and the current allocation of the money, the commission is crearg on alcarrying on all the assesss of the needs. >> with more details on those border restrictions let's join barnaby phillips on the border of asau. >> this is the main autoban, the police check the identity see who's inside. now this is not what the europe of open borders was meant to look like. it does reflect a continent where politicians are under increasing popular pressure to bring the refugee and migrant crisis under control. and that is what the interior ministers meeting in amsterdam today will be discussing. germany would like these temporary border controls which have been implementb implementer countries across the schengen area from norway to france to austria to denmark for these temporary croam controls be ex

worth recalling the words in the last few hours of frederica mogherini, the e.u.'high representative, she says the window of opportunity for the talks will not last forever, that's why the u.s. and russia are pushing hard for this to happen on the 25th or afterwards. they feel it could derail, also worth reminding you that the talks were decided upon which the international community, in the shape of what is called the international syrian support group. all the regional players coming together for a series of movies. they decided on the date of 25th january. the problem is there. if you want a new date you probably have to bring the support group together to discuss it. i'm told it would be almost impossible to have another meeting of the international syria support group, because it would be almost impossible to get all the members of the group to sit around the table because of tensions between iran and saudi arabia. they almost have to stick to the decisions made by the support group, and that's why russia and the u.s. push hard for a date next week, and that's