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official in charge of foreign affairs, catherine ashton - an interim deal on iran's program seemed close. pressures, constraints on both sides have been growing since

the catherine ashton stakes testing tone during use. it was a crime to pray cents and each would take time it is always being the approach that would be the first dent the confidence building steps and then there would be follow up steps this is not something to say it because it is awesome you can simply of deal with ribbon on it so you know we all walk in the way the food's been working to get an understanding with the ratings that is robust that is sustainable. that is verifiable. but of course that would meet the follow up with even if we did preach an initial agreement the dynamic for the next couple of days is yet to be disowned it. he was solid on the basis of what's happened so far how we will organize the walk. we just don't enjoy things for we want to have a fo the numbering of positions in them and make as much produces republic and of the most simple thing is that any agreement has done is a good deal so that will take the sauce it takes the festivus encode optics at the greenpeace activists for free on bail. the city and un

in its foreign policy chief catherine ashton is also taking cars the diplomats are trying to agree on one of the maintenance and other should do an advanced state of the resolution. the estate deal may involve the iranians scaling back their weapons. w need him and expands into ten point easing of some economic sanctions. here are some pics of state john kerry in which prime minister not on the news and joined the negotiating teams from the country's case as it's still in the day is one and his resume is very. issues on the day for those of you properly and thoroughly addressed. stopping to look sweet to me and ashton chinese foreign minister sergei number off says he'll join the colts on saturday he has apparently being turned to the issue is found about the possibility of lifting sanctions against united. that is really sticking to the hotline the last at times if i've made these mini prime minister and anya me not to any of the indiana on friday after nineteen ten the antennae of who sent the west should share more caution in dealing with it on not to rush to start. too late to rec

high then in the world the deal was going can violate a tweet from catherine ashton the e.u.'s tip top diplomat spokes person broke the news and when now waiting to hear the details of that agreement we're waiting for all the foreign ministers of the p five plus one foreign ministers and the iranian foreign minister just adds a reef to meet in the united nations palace all the nations here in geneva to with . the exact details of the greenland but we have already had a few reports iran far from news agency is reporting that the deal would include that iran would no longer produce twenty percent purity uranium within the next six months and there is also a set. that is one of the reportedly now there is also. set to be a press conference as i said the foreign ministers after that will give separate press conferences in order to sort of talk about how the talks went from each of their sides now how has this deal been made we the media have been camped out through the night while the foreign ministers have been so rushing out that we've heard talk of. of meetings convening reconv

foreign policy chief catherine ashton as well as a foreign minister of iran had come in here to give their press conference they were kind of upbeat and they were hopeful about the next round of talks scheduled for november the twenty third said that he was disappointed and that he understood that something like this there were definitely there will definitely be differences among the different parties involved but really it had taken quite a different turn from what was expected when we were hearing statements coming from foreign ministers of the u.k. william hague. seize the moment and trying to come up with a very elusive deal but in the end indeed there is no deal that has been reached but again talks will be rescheduled november the twentieth right and everybody waits for the next round. live for us in geneva thanks very much for that update. well despite the turmoil in many post arab spring states chinese investors still doing brisk business in the middle east and north africa well u.s. and european investors seem to stay on the sidelines beijing's businessmen are taking these

well where do the negotiations stand right now we know that the top diplomat catherine ashton has said that her talks with her iranian counterpart gerard zarif have been going well the chemistry between them is good and we've had similar note of optimism from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov he's going to be joining these talks shortly but at the same time we know that a number of stumbling blocks remain here these talks it's become apparent over the past two days now one significant issue is the fact that iran is said to be insisting that its right to enrich uranium is publicly recognized in the agreement by the world powers but that's not the only problem we know that these last negotiations that just wrapped up here over ten days ago they folded at the eleventh hour people were ready to put pen to paper everyone seemed to be happy with the times of the deal that had been hammered out but at the last minute fronts reportedly insisted on much tougher conditions to be set out for the arraign ians and that is wards both sides and the iranians are said to be grappling with now we

official in charge of foreign affairs, catherine ashton - an interim deal on iran's program seemed close. pressures, constraints on both sides have been growing since they were last here. in tehran, in a tell voiced address the man in charge supports the talks. there are red lines he will not allow negotiators to cross. >> translation: i insist that the rights of the nation be preserved, including the nuclear rights. >> last time around the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his counterparts from germany, france, the u.k., china and russia were negotiating until late into the night. this time the talks are handled at a lower level than senior officials. all are aware of strong opposition from deals from israel, gulf countries and inside u.s. congris. they must overcome differences in their own ranks. >> we know why a deal failed. france was unhappy that it couldn't keep its stockpile enriched to 20%. and a water plant under construction. they want all work halteded once active that reacto will be hard to shut down. a military strike would release harmful radiation. those who followed

the day began with a meeting between the iranian foreign minister, sareef, and catherine ashton, thegh rep and u.n. cochairman for these talks. and ist only lasted-- unlike yesterday where it went for hours-- it only lasted maybe 90 minutes, and then they left and consultations continued among the two groups. foreign minister zarif on tv explained it this way. he said there were issues that were raised yesterday, he said, that we didn't agree on. and he said the delegations consulted their capitals and in some cases had results. in other words, it seems to me that on some of the issues, the 6 it's u.s., chinese, french, russians, germaps and british-- did move traup's way enough to satisfy tehran. however, the rest of the day was just a complete toking and froing. 200 of us reporters were camped out in the intercontinental lobby, at one point forced to order wine to keep a seat in the wine bar. that happened about 5:00 p.m., frantically trying to glean anything. the only people talk were upon iranians. the russian foreign minister flew in. after much prodding, the state department sa

. >> for the third time in five weeks, catherine ashton and the delegates meet here in geneva for nuclear talks. world powers are trying to secure a six-month interim agreement. they wants iran to limit its nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions removed. >> these are very complicated negotiations. we have made a lot of progress over the last two meetings. last time we came an awfully long way. no one is pretending this is going to be simple. tying up the final details is often the difficult bit. >> she needs to take back some -- he needs to take some kind of agreement back to tehran. for he arrived, he posted his thoughts online. >> for us iranians, nuclear energy is not about joining the club or threatening others. nuclear energy is about a leap, i jump toward -- a jump toward deciding our own destiny. >> these talks are essentially an effort to try to sort out iran's place in the world and in its own region. taking placens here affect the shape of the entire middle east. and in that region, iran's supreme leader has told a loyal audience that he is watching the talks closely and

an eu official said the six major world powers managed to guess an agreement as the results catherine ashton is being knitted stitch of the hall from the east because three of her number is on this issue and now with the new government has been possible to make multiple protests from some of the previous government was ingredients to the evening baking. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has branded the deal an historic mistake texted saying his hardline stance failed to win eyes and his allies. seeded fifth season and the fact is israel does not use to negotiate and when negotiations is a real negotiation with both sides make compromises. this agreement will coincide with these regulations that has conceded he absolutely nothing to iran the sizes are many such an agreement would not be impossible due to oppose the united states and the europeans is understood that cost twenty thousand people thousands of people are fed a volcano eruption alinta nice united is soo not to use a pressure steam rising around two pm reaches into the sky. the sin of all volcano has erupted multiple times a

john kerry is in another meeting with the european foreign policy chief catherine ashton.hen you try to get information from the u.s. side, the state department using the same phrase they use persistently using the phrase, "they are trying to narrow the gaps between the two sides." a little more information coming from the french, from laurent fabius, talking about some stumbling blocks and what happens to the uranium that's been enriched to the level of 20%. that being one of the stumbling blocks here. we have spoken to some iran jan officials in the last few minutes, telling al jazeera that they don't expect the iranian foreign minister to sit with the p5 plus one for about three hours. and they say negotiations are within that p5 plus one group. they share the same aim, but they are six different countries represented and will have slightly different views on how to proceed. one of the key players is not seer. that's sergei lavrov. he's joining others who cancelled plans to come here. the next push will wait until he arrives. >> presuming they find a way to proceed on t

european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton is courtney being content with the iranian side she's setting up meetings with negotiators from the united states and russia and china france and britain and germany. she met with canadian foreign minister mohammad jem but that need to try to close the gaps. he renamed it before and missed our bus that had she says the negotiators have worked through some details of major differences remain. the rainy and demanded that the major powers to recognize their right to enrich a rainy and cleaned the ride is an amiable and constitute the peaceful use of nuclear power are not terrified here in the community and beyond a certain level of purity. what enabled the ukrainians could keep the market nuclear weapons. korea plans to set up fourteen year economics and sing in an apparent bid to attract foreign investment and it comes as the economy is being hampered by international sanctions as well as the shortage of raw materials energy and foreign currency. the stadium of the supreme people's assembly announced on thursday that the country will

nuclear activities in exchange for a reduction of sanctions european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton his court in any contacts with the iranian side the setting up meetings with negotiators from the united states russia china france britain and germany. he's working with iranian foreign minister mohammad job i'm sorry to try to close some gaps. iranian deputy foreign minister abbas iraq she said after the second day that the negotiators and work through some details. but major differences remain the iranians have demanded that the major powers recognize their right to enrich uranium. with their counterparts here enriching uranium beyond a certain level of purity would enable authorities and to pour on to develop nuclear weapons international atomic energy agency has repeatedly confirmed that iran secretly continued nuclear development and build new facilities. or a new leader say developing weapons of mass destruction runs counter to the teaching of islam. they point out their country signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in nineteen seventy and say that's proof that uranium enr

yippee union foreign policy chief catherine ashton chairs the times. the main entrance as they using their nuclear program for peaceful purposes negotiators from the six powers to thank the rains are developing nuclear weapons they want them to scale back the uranium enrichment. the u s officials say they might consider relaxing sanctions that have crippled iran's economy it wasn't motivated individual who knew how to diminish those are all local bookies to be done to me said the negotiators am making progress but he admitted the process has beamed top chinese authorities are using state run media attention us officials to call an incident near tiananmen square an act of terrorism the us state department official said the government will conduct its own analysis. on monday of last week a sport utility vehicle drove onto the sidewalk knew this plant and ploughed into the crowd to turn this night so did the three people in the vehicle. police say they were members of the weekend minority group the detained five suspects a teal are believed to be weak or

s high representative catherine ashton met with the iranian foreign minister zarif and we've had reports that that meeting has gone productively but essentially what we have here on the line is a historical deal that could potentially put an end to ten years of political wrangling over the of raney and the program now a lot of our viewers will remember that just ten days ago the delegations here in geneva came tantalizingly close to clinching that deal but it fell apart at the last minute and thereafter ensued a bit of a blame game about who was responsible for it now what we do know is that journalists here in geneva have actually been banned from entering the lobby of the intercontinental hotel where a lot of these delegations are meeting and where traditionally during previous talks the journalists have been congregating themselves but police have said it's for security issues that the journalists are now confined to the media center which is about ten minutes away however a bit of speculation in the press camp is that the delegations simply don't want any any information leaked from

eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton is chairing the tonics foreign minister muhammad or bad said the fee is leading the iranian delegation. it is made concessions at the last meeting in october that we don't raise its deal with the enriched uranium that has the weapons potential. on sunday. iran's supreme leader had to be her running through his weight behind the times the announcement would be gone the negotiators are on the difficult mission. and they're giving their utmost efforts to it. how my day has the final say on the nuclear program leaders in tehran are hoping for an agreement with the nanny here. the head of the entire carriage a power company says the utility is preparing a new report on the crisis at the people pushing the planned announcement comes as the company tries to gain understanding to be a start to other reactors in central japan. middle managers released their first record on the nuclear disaster in june last year. the valuation was based on the company's own investigations but many questions left unanswered. so tucker president of now meet peterson says t

rainy and foreign minister meeting with the european union policy chief foreign policy chief catherine ashton and the mood in that meeting was certainly one of optimism but israel has been opposed to these negotiations from the start to say that iran will cheat anyway and in fact israel has always been against iran's nuclear program of course israel the fear is that it will use nuclear weapons against the jewish state to century bomb israel. because it. has a nuclear threshold. we are not blown them i don't think we're stupid i think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe particularly of our allies like israel we did earlier hear from iran after the talks ended on saturday that it was in fact powerless who was responsible for blocking any kind of deal the french foreign minister fabia saying that we don't want a fool's deal what we're hearing now from the u.s. secretary of state is that the blame is on iran's shoulder kerry saying that the major powers were in fact united on an iranian nuclear deal but it was the

foreign policy chief catherine ashton as well as the foreign minister of iran. came coming here to give their press conference they were kind of upbeat and they were hopeful about the next round of talks scheduled for november the twenty year old said that he was disappointed and that he understood that something like this there would definitely be there will definitely be differences among the different parties involved but really it had taken quite a different turn from what was expected when we were hearing statements coming from foreign ministers of the u.k. william hague. seize the moment and trying to come up with a very elusive deal but in the end indeed there is no deal that has been reached but again talks will be rescheduled november the twentieth some of the main sticking points on the table will react to it so iran could possibly use to produce weapons grade nuclear fuel and house relief would proceed let's have a closer look at how the deal. well the negotiators were trying to put together here we go first according to some sources at the six world

foreign policy chief catherine ashton as well as the foreign minister of iran. coming here to give their press conference they were kind of upbeat and they were hopeful about the next round of talks scheduled for november the twenty year old said that he was disappointed and that he had disturbed that something like this there would definitely be there will definitely be differences among the different parties involved but really it had taken quite a different turn from what was expected when we were hearing statements coming from foreign ministers of the u.k. william hague. seize the moment and trying to come up with a very elusive deal but in the end indeed there is no deal that has been reached but again talks will be rescheduled november the twentieth and some of the main sticking points on the table will react to a bit to iran could potentially be used to produce weapons grade nuclear fuel and how sanctions relief would proceed let's take a closer look. the deal negotiators were trying to put together first though according to some sources the six world pow

michael mann spokesman for the eu foreign affairs chief catherine ashton who chairs the nuclear talks told our team as promised but is ultimately up to iran to end the standoff so is it good enough out that we all are getting into the t ten in the way the story never happened before on the previous iraqi governments we have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress the iranians have expressed the wish to do the same so what we hope is that they will follow up that was the code was with good deeds in the negotiation of a half to make this a number of undertakings and guarantees this is the alps the iranian nuclear program worthy of such kennedy has justified concerns so they have to make that step and gravy in and agreed to do something to be its natural community is is developing for itself it's all about the enrichment of uranium which is currently being interested in the wrong foot level which is not necessary for peace twenty different muffled are some things that may have to do of course this is the mc of six separate sought to be flexible but the good stuff prett

foreign policy chief catherine ashton also told a press conference that there had been a lot of to quote her concrete progress but some differences remain the main difference comes from the objection from france with france objecting strenuously that the proposed deal would be would do too little too could iran's uranium enrichment program or stop the development of a nuclear reactor that would be capable of producing plutonium the french foreign minister laurent fabius said that he could not accept what he called a fool's game in other words a weak deal with iran the big obstacle appears to be the future of iran's plutonium reactor at iraq which could provide a nother route to a nuclear weapons capability and this facility which is currently being built is due to become operational next year the talks will resume in some ten days and then we will see a fresh bid to end this current standoff live from tel aviv all of us live thanks very much indeed for that well let's take a closer look at the main negotiation points here world powers want to iran to hold all activities to enrich uranium

the iranian foreign minister meeting with the european union policy chief foreign policy chief catherine ashton and the mood in that meeting was certainly one of optimism but israel has been opposed to these negotiations from the start saying that iran will cheat anyway and in fact israel has always been against iran's nuclear program but what netanyahu says is that easing sanctions on iran would be like to quote on yahoo putting a hole in a tire on the other hand you have the united states which is pro these negotiations of what was seen as possibly the most serious american israeli standoff and dispute in the years that. it's a dangerous. because it. has a nuclear threshold made sure. we are not blown them i don't think we're stupid i think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe particularly of our allies like israel john kerry also says to quote him that israel needs to recognize that no agreement with iran has of yet been reached on any kind of israeli opposition is essentially premature what kerry stated

kerry's tour comes at the invitation of eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton. she's cool wood making negotiations with iran on the hoff. both the p five plus one group consisting of all of the un security council's find permanent members plus germany. a senior us state department official says kerry's commit to teaching for he can help narrow the differences. b was diplomats in geneva to work with a possible deal to end the decade. no mucus down gulf was continuing to progress. they remain officials that their proposal to have some of the country's atomic activities. hewitt has this innate to sydney from crippling economic sanctions has been accepted by the six hours. officials at that too of course if the optimistic on cost to clean and cream in the nation said nothing yet has been finalized. the two latest on this developing story listed by county. she knew that our corresponding kate hawkins and kate you can fall into this and there's a sense of quarters but also the historical tune is the most effective told what succeeding in jeans now on day two into the

your teammates with his iranian counterpart he said setting the scene with ease talk to them as catherine ashton as soon as well now and to finance and number of sticking points still remain hidden so what are the hunted down to fifty lbs is getting to be mates and we made the rounds foreign minister has already set the tone that's the wild talents come to making recognize he runs and lights to uranium enrichment. he's not signing a deal here and we know that's coming into the suitcase nations iran has already made a number of concessions according to reports they've already agreed to stop enriching uranium to identify the sounds. they've agreed to display areas of anything that's already been enriched to a five percent of the red sea and the whole city was taken about not using the finest centrifuges an email or worse make excellent unwell the us and eu have agreed to amendments that were in the corn hill makes the actions against iran to prevent a pace six months off trade deal here is how my doubt that if they ever get to hammering out that deal say it was still a lot of positions that need t

the is catherine ashton is representing the six world powers over the next three days. less is keen to keep preure on to ron that sanctions will be tough and while president barack obama give diplomacy a chance to bear fruit. all this. as pres the united states me maintaining all options to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons i think that is a task that is were conducted. the iranian nuclear program is spread over several sites. there's a nuclear power plant that will share as well as sites for uranium mining enrichment there are also research facilities which can manufacture fuel rods. and in twenty fourteen a reactor capable of making weapons grade plutonium is due to go on line in iraq. iran says its nuclear program is purely civilian in nature. but western governments suspect decide to also be used to develop and build a nuclear weapon. sanctions have hit the wrong heart the oil embargo alone has cost the country sixty percent of its international revenues those measures have brought him onto the table. iran once the negotiations to lead to an easing of sancti

great importance in thames upsets me because the issue promptly and eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton has this quiet anything with the rain in four minutes to my mom and tot i cannot as i read as very positive as well according to a spokesman ashton says an eco safe has been known to block the deal and it will take as much time as is needed to be stealthy and clean. we owe them into a bar if it's missing school which we come here and sisters. it runs fine dusting of a number of steel. and we hope that the iranians show that desire. we have made a great deal of progress in the last two rounds of me to continue the protest and it's now up on me not to say again we just want to. reach an agreement as quickly as the candidate has to be the right agreement meant for it will take this loss it takes now for some details on the response from iraq at the outset the make his rounds in the us nations in geneva has told how a report on da tara and ign and held on the ukrainian people and media reaction to this brand told santa what they expect to become rounds of sanctions ign. each. nancy's with

hey that's just the school id at east high representative catherine ashton that's what the iranian foreign ministry ten thousand of the fence because reports that the routine has been creeped out to be precisely what we have had a lot on the mind is of historical deal that could potentially contain entertaining is the principal buying playing with the ukrainian media program now a lot of ideas over and just spend a significant distance here in geneva. it's really easy place to clinching the deal price the cost of the mosman at sandown after his team's nickname came about he was responsible for it. now what we've seen in infants and the next day. the incident that has been banned from entry to the lobby of the intercontinental hotel pza lot o these edications ons i went toduring revious told that an arrest i think cooper taking themselvesght police it aid its books to carry species. that's a generous amount of points the media center whh is about ten minutes away. let that take place in the past camp is that the delegation sent to the point. all the information leaked from the routines befo

see all signs at least on the surface that it's trying to negotiate with others and in fact catherine ashton the foreign affairs chief of the you yesterday and today mr kerry said that they see the talks they describe the talks as serious and substantial so they are seeing a step forward why israel is not changing its rhetoric towards iran. but i'm asking you what do you mean by serious talks what do we get back from iran do we get a stopping of the enrichment of uranium do we get the stop of the program do we get out of declaration against israel what do we get back we give time and get nothing back ok then talks i mean he has you know and that is arranged as yes or now the situation is different now we have to admit that things are changing i mean the progress is made although you know step by step and slowly but what i think israel believe in diplomacy here why is the rather so aggressive still. i don't see any change what change do you see the only change was sees the rhetorical change we see more smiles but we don't see anything that is translated into action you know we don't believe w

the negotiating table or fourth session of talks with the european union's chief taken to the catherine ashton. that is positive the towpath with the stumble now after dustin is a consulting with his favorites is from the six i'm discussing what was being chc!vez has been gone so far and we'll see what happens off. mexicans but this puts a smile that melts rule is that how things will happen next. amanda and the six major world powers with which is again facing the united states russia china france britain and germany. includes two agreement two weeks ago the tool then co ops to a lack of consensus among the western governments and in the uranium enrichment issue that remains the sticking point now the problem for the west is the level to which man is in reaching his lady and twenty percent close to nuclear weapons grade. if as the man has consistently maintained that new korearogram is for peaceful purposes of energy generation that needs argued for in a hospice and enrichment should be enough the peasants in geneva of the good news us secretary of state john kerry. i'm russian foreign minist

are currently locked in a meeting and we know that a little earlier the high representative catherine ashton had met with the iranian foreign minister zarif and that meeting. productively but essentially what we have here is a historic deal at stake here engine that could put an end to. the issue of the iranian program now and many of our viewers will know that just ten days ago the delegations here came tantalizing close to that deal but it fell apart just at the last minute and thereafter ensued a blame game about who was responsible for that falling apart it's cut out in the middle of talking all right sorry about that let's leave this thing for the moment thanks very much indeed for the moment very rarely does this happen but it's obviously one of those days we've lost contact with polly there in geneva but we will indeed endeavor to catch up with a bit later now these talks started more than a decade ago but deadlock in two thousand and five that's when. it becomes president and iran resumes you rhenium enrichment dancing the peaceful nature of its intentions the u.n. security council a

foreign affairs chief catherine ashton who chairs the nuclear talks told r.t. there is a promise but it's ultimately up to iran to end the standoff the signs are good in the fact that we all getting into the detail in a way that's really never happened before under the previous iranian government we have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress the iranians have expressed the wish to do the same so what we hope is that they will follow up was that good words with good deeds in the negotiation room they have to make a certain number of undertaking isn't guaranteed this is a prout's the iranian nuclear program where the international community has justified concerns so they have to make and and really you know agree to do certain things that the international community is demanding for example it's all about the enrichment of uranium which is currently being and reached in iran to a level which is not necessary for a peaceful nuclear program therefore there are some things that they have to do of course this is the negotiations that both sides h

its words with action he runs for a minister's job was the greed and eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton made an optimistic impression that if the talks in geneva the two met privately before the round table meeting. rees said the negotiations would be hard work but still the deal could be reached there was no official comment from ashton mother on the ewould exct coneten said stions from in. i d think tt anyone'expected minute instant results this is of this is a negotiation process. so me we are hopeful that we could make considerable progress this weekmonday it clear what iran is bringing to the table diplomats say it may offer to stop enriching uranium to twenty percent greater purity seen as a precursor to producing nuclear weapons tehran may also offer to halt construction of a reactor near the town of iraq that may not be enough before i leave to take a quick one minute break that will be back and she's not a huge when iealized my seat it's a real policy because there's no rushing about everyone writes that the team on their income and the meat. i kw a the great thing is the reaso

you know the top diplomat catherine ashton has said that her talks with her raney and counterpart gerard zarif have been going well the chemistry between them is good and we've had similar note of optimism from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the same time we know that a number of stumbling blocks remain here at these talks it's become apparent over the past two days iran has been willing to commit to allow inspectors from the international atomic agency into the country they've agreed to a vast swathes of the conditions set out for them by the e.u. and the u.s. but there seem to be getting much in return for that we know that the u.s. and the e.u. aren't offering to ease sanctions particularly significant me or indeed immediately if a deal is struck the way things stand at the moment sanctions would only be east slightly and off to six months so iran's wanting to see a bit of leeway on that said to be they want to see an easing of some of the very severe sanctions against that oil trade and their banking sector moreover at the moment we're talking about potentially hammering out

promising you have the mania foreign ministers meet in with the european union policy chief on ict catherine ashton in the mood in a nice innocent and one of optimism this home has seen opposed to the citgo stations from the stock saying that the plant will teach a new way. and in fact does not has already seen a case demands nuclear program but netanyahu says is that easing sanctions on the matter would be nice to put that on yahoo. putting a hole in a tie at the other hand you have the united states which is true these negotiations what the scene is possibly the most serious and making is me sound old and disputes in years. that's a bad deal. it's dangerous because it keeps you on. as an opiate thresholds nation we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid. i think we ever pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe and particularly of our allies like israel. he also says to close him that islam needs to make it nice that no agreement with the band has a ph in the stand any kind of a single position is in st and premature.

anyhoo we know that he eats like a baby yet at ease talking to my chief catherine ashton diesels that i contacted an african union said against him. he's really been able to speak to his appetites and amelie is a site giving you must be dispensed with. he is being held and send it to keep the cdc says that's right i said it's very important to the localities to justify why i have counted like they have helped in that incommunicado practically the past twelve months. i trust the people behind the piano. the people that supporters the sink. it is no way to the strike is that the yet to beat the clock to strike him a stick insect into tomato and he is still the president. i then said i kept in touch and see the reporting there from outside a high security police complex outside cairo on the child of the ousted president who can foresee when she struck comes one day after us secretary of state john kerry was in cairo now he didn't mention the case directly but he did say all the egyptians should have the right to free and transparent trials of kerry's now in saudi arabia the latest stop o

top diplomats catherine ashton who is representing world powers in negotiations with me and counterpart gerard's a reef she's said that she's got a good chemistry in talks with him they seem to be going well that they've got a good reporter and they're progressing that sort of optimism has been echoed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who said that he thinks that they can hammer out a deal here and he's actually joining in these talks shortly but there has been a sense over the past few days that these talks the number of stumbling blocks still remain here it hasn't just been a case of costing the t's and dotting the i's as perhaps many people had hoped and there are sticking points now specifically one of the sticking points is the wording of the draft agreement and iran is said to be insisting that the world powers publicly recognize its right to enrich uranium now that was a major stumbling block the previous negotiations that happened just ten days ago here they fell apart at the eleventh hour. reportedly france was said to have demanded conditions for it to be set out for

rainy and foreign minister meeting with the european union policy chief foreign policy chief catherine ashton and the mood in that meeting was certainly one of optimism but israel has been opposed to these negotiations from the start to say that iran will cheat anyway and in fact israel has always been against iran's nuclear program of course israel the fear is that it will use nuclear weapons against the jewish state to essentially bomb israel the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called these recent talks in geneva a very bad deal for everyone except for to read what netanyahu says is that easing sanctions on iran would be like to quote netanyahu putting a hole in a tire on the other hand you have the united states which is closed these negotiations what we've seen is possibly the most serious and mary-kate is really a standoff and dispute in the years. because it. has a nuclear threshold. we are not blown them i don't think we're stupid i think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe particula

catherine ashton play with in belfast ahead of the upcoming talks of the state of the two day talks in geneva follow any sane enough to back its size described as positive an ear and the sea killing me from a international sanctions about the p five plus one group that wants to be in chile randy prevent it from a building nuclear weapons and a senior us official has said the six countries and will teach you all to meet its functions relief in the exchange footpaths in the runs you rename the region and activities and bailey told to it now it was a long teeny any tear and she tell that some of the post but actions and the countries they could expect from your mind during this round in the talks. do you mean you only meant an ace and i we know the kids didn't even consider them the best inside and also that these days before the son of the coffee had a lot of news and that this day in some western media for his son's house is that you don't have a baby suspend its twenty percent yearly name the man but made clear that you've all got men have been fears that have stopped it so it's ultima