really wants to get nailed down the nuclear deal with iran. russia united states have been cooperating, perhaps the one bright spot at the moment in u.s.-russian cooperation on that issue. of course, the americans though are quite worried about the sale of russian missile defense system to his iran. after that, then we go onto syria, the united states believes that the ground is shifting in syria and that the rebels are winning more and more ground and that assad is looking weaker and weaker. of course russia has been backing assad for a good number of years the united states wants russia to change its orientation and persuade assad to come to the negotiating table. then last of all, we have ukraine. and this is perhaps where things are looking most intractable at the moment. we have both sides pledging accordance to the minsk agreements reached in february. but still a lot of ground between them and not much sign that they will actually come together. >> all right rory challands live for us in the russian city of sochi. >>> now, members of the u.n.

we get in a conflict with china or for that matter with iran or russia. i am worried about all of the others piling on seeing an opportunity. china piles on, russia piling on iran then you have a global struggle then the problem is our military is not up to it, it is too small too limited and just not prepared for multiinel conflicts. lou: to back just a bit up to where we are in terms of chain of decision making necessary to get to it point. why do you believe that pentagon would even pose a suggest or idea that would send surviolent aircraft -- surviolents surveillance aircraft and ships to south china sea. they would not do that without commander in chief would they? >> this has to be a presidential decision something of that gravity, there is a bit of a riddle to it, of course,. i think ashton carter, secretary of defense probably made a case to the president that we have already let it go on too long, china is building military islands in international water in disputed waters? we have rally always stood for the law of the seas, i think there is prob

both iran -- sorry both russia and the united states passed the p five plus one group to try to get nuclearl with iran locked down. so there is agreements between washington, and moscow on this something that the united states has come here hoping to push forward. they will, of course, be talking about the sale of russian missile defense systems to iran, that's displeased washington but that's a good area of agreement there. syria is a problem. and washington has come here, basically, hoping there hoping there might be some degree of flexibility. the president not logging at security used to, may be washington, i'm sorry, maybe moscow can is a bit more flexible about whether it will back asaad. maybe it may try to persuade asaad to come to the negotiating table, and then of course, there's ukraine. washington says that the ukrainian rebels at the pro russian rebels have been breaking the cease fire, russia says that it is the ukrainian army that has been breaking the cease fire. so a lot of ground separating the two sides there. rory, you mentioned iran, syria, the fact these are even being

earlier this week the syrian foreign minister said that iran and russia would never give up their support for the regime. presumably the regime is getting a lot of support from iran and russia. >> well i am not in a position to criticize, and i don't know what kind of interest with each other or secret negotiations. in international affairs, if i were in a position like in damascus, i would not count too much on tehran or others to come to my assistance when the chips are down. at this point, the regime is not falling, but it is significantly weakened. and the best evidence for this is the fact that al nusra and i.s.i.s. and others are, in fact making inroads, not just in syria, but in iraq. therefore, i don't think that we should give this kind of claim or claims the kind of emphasis that perhaps he would like us to give. we will have to wait and see whether moscow and tehran will really back them when the time comes. i'm not there yet. i would not bet on it. >> thank you very much for joining us from beirut. >> last month's earthquake in nepal is having a devastating effect on the econo

the latest example is the negotiations with iran. russia participates it. it appeared to be participating as a partner in the negotiations and then the day after the negotiations were completed and the deal was signed, russia announced its unilateral decision to sell weapons to iran. so this is -- it's a classic putin gesture. you have been had again message. russia has no particular strategic interest in selling though temperatures weapons to iran. it does have a strong interest in communicating that message to the united states. so i don't see any argument for deal waiving partner that will -- dealing with partner that will be unreliable -- that will reliably be unreliable at every turn, and no -- certainly with ukraine we have seen that no amount -- there's nothing the west can do that can influence what putin does. so that's sort of frees the west up to do the right thing. >> host: which is? >> guest: which is not to be in bed with a dictatessor and nod to aide him and engage him and not to give him the honor of being recognized as a partner in any enter

iran's nuclear program. now to bring this courtship analogy few circle but deeping ties with iraq russia is deeping them withran. >> thank you. >>> new talks to restore diplomatic ties between the u.s. and cuba. the discussions are focused on reopening embassies. one state department official says the two sides are closer than they have ever been now that president obama has moved to take the nation off of the list of state sponsors of terrorism. raul castro says he expects an exchange of ambassadors by thinged of the year. the decision is already having a big effect on the tourism business. airlines are adding direct flights between the two countries and american tourists are already flocking there. ♪ >> reporter: for cubans and u.s. citizens alike, there is little doubt tourism would benefit from normalized relations. heavy restrictions make it difficult for people to visit. >> the history here is unbelievable. >> reporter: cuba has lock been a destination for travelers from europe and canada and international tourism here is big business. a select few u.s. tourism companies are licensed to operate here. >

vessel we get in a conflict with china or for that matter with iran or with russia. i'm worried about all the others piling on seeing an opportunity. china piling on russia piling on iran and then you've got a real global struggle and the problem is our military is not up to it. it's too small, it's too limited and it's just not prepared for multiple conflicts. >> back just a bit up to where we are in terms of the chain of decision making necessary to get to this point. why do you believe the pentagon would even pose a suggestion or idea that would send surveillance aircraft and ships into the south china sea? certainly they would not have done so without talking to the white house, without the clear direction of the president, the commander in chief, would they? >> no. this has to be a presidential decision something of that gravity, of that consequence. so there is a bit of a riddle to it, of course. but i think finally ashton carter the secretary of defense, probably made a case to the president with his naval subordinates that we have already let this go on too l

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these are nation state actors including or semistate nation actors including china, north korea, iran, russia, former soviet sovietupon sponsored states, and individuals and enterprises associated with them with sophisticated crime syndicates. if one of the entities focuses on a company it's not going to end well for the company or customers. we need a robust muscular response to the threats and the fact this committee's paying attention to the issues we appreciate it very much. mr. chairman thank you to the house for passing on more than one occasion threat information legislation and legislation that we hope the senate does the same, not sharing personal information, but the threat information sharing bill is helpful to the cause in making the country prepared to defend against threats. relating to the financial services sector and payments system, our sector, as the chairman mentioned dealt with the issues in a regulated context for quite some time. it was passed in 1999 part of the act, of course was to visit upon this industry, debt of security standards and enforcement mechanisms includ

iran russia, etc.. throughout global terrorism, counterinsurgency, humanitarian humanitarian initiatives the aseptic might say i can see that assessment working reasonably well for a future u.s./china security competition should one be merged but maybe not so much. let the case for an affirmative roll for net assessment in 2015. >> it is certainly the case that what net assessments more difficult after the soviet union disappeared as was generally referred to as a competitor. that has been an issue they have gone back, and he had people go back and look time and again since the mid 90s. -in terms, something like this precision's strikers' union, it has been much more difficult to get to the end of that story than we thought was going to be nearly 90s. we assumed basically there would be long-range precision strike capabilities on the part of adversaries. and long-range specific strike forces over long distances. happily that didn't happen because for most of the last two decades we have been the only pe

russia and the united states is essential for global security. there are whole area where is they cooperate despite tensions. you mentioned the situation in syria. the situation in iranrussia the u.s. would not have got so close to getting iran to the negotiating table and deal over the nuclear program. they need the russians as well for cooperation of united nations security council for resolution on yemen. whole areas where they need to cooperate and try to get a normal working relationship started again. >> a normal working relationship after a tough year. matthew chance thank you. >>> we have breaking news this morning. a new earthquake has hit nepal. 7.3 magnitude. a strong strong quake and shallow as well. we are trying to get reports of damage to find out what's going on there. this could be very very damaging to a country that does not need this. we'll have new information after the break. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans along with john berman. we have breaking news. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake has hit nepal. it was revised down from an initial 7.4 by the u.s. geological survey. still a

and russia are with iran, does the u.s. some sort of an agreement with iran? indira: absolutely. if we do not have rusher's -- buy-in, we are not going to be into get that deal. a putative nuclear deal, assuming we get one after june 30. joining me from washington, thank you both so much. still ahead on the bloomberg market day, china cut rates againstnd it is greece everyone in brussels. we will get you to the global market wrap, after the break. ♪ ♪ mark: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. i am mark crumpton. let's get you straight to the markets. bloomberg's julie hyman is standing by. julie: we have seen markets kind of stumbling by. the macro level, we have in watching the news out of china, where we saw a rate cut. we have been watching the andving situation in europe how finance ministers are trying to address the question of greece, but if you look at the nasdaq in the u.s., it is holding up a little bit better than the other major averages, and we have some of the leaders there, including monster and netflix

these are nation state actors, including or semi-state nation actors including china north korea, iran russia former soviet union sponsored states and individuals and enterprises associated with them and very sophisticated international crime end cats. so if one of those entities trieng glats on a company it's likely not going to end well for that company or their customers. we need a more robust, more muscular response to these threats and the fact that this committee is paying attention to these issues, we appreciate it very much. mr. chairman thank you to the house for passing on more than one occasion threat information legislation, we hope the senate does the same and, again, we're not talking about sharing personal information but that threat information sharing bill is very helpful to this cause and making the country more prepared to defend against these threats. as it relates to the financial service sector and the payment system our sector as the chairman mentioned has been dealing with these issues in a regulated context for quite some time, graham leach bliely passed in 1999 part

as sergei said, we discussed iran, where russia and the united states and our other partners are working through the nuclear negotiations with iran. coming into the last six weeks of those negotiations. that unity hasnd been key to bringing us to where we are today. it will also be the key to and toing a good deal our being confident that the deal will be able to be well implemented. the united states and russia remain closely aligned in this effort, as do the rest of our allies and friends, eu partners. we also discussed today the real and present danger of isil. while russia is not a formal ,ember of the global coalition rush is an important partner in the global effort against violent extremism and counter is violentuntering extremism is the first order of priority for both russia and the united states. no one should doubt that the reach of groups extends far the particular region of operations, and it effects every single one of us. the united states, russia, and the rest of the world. we are in unity with respect to our commitment to continue to and ultimately, to drive it out of ir

we're led to believe that iran would be a sort of integral partner in foe meanting what you might call regime decapitation or transition. russia would have to work to see that forward too. what's happening in syria is interesting. the regime is losing losing badly and so is iran by the way, in northern syria, islib provis has fallen out of the regime's control, southern syria and the regime and guard corps of iran have been badly defeated. the u.s. sees this as an opportunity. aepts skeptical a nuclear deal with iran or any kind of friendly overtures with the kremlin will bring about this sort of grand ambition. but remember as you pointed out, wolf last time kerry went to moscow was for what to sue for peace in syria get russia to stop selling s-300 anti-aircraft missiles to assad and the event of that was the announcement of the geneva 2 peace protocol which went nowhere. this is a sort of do over trying to get russia on board for a host of issues. >> are they on the same page michael, when it comes to fighting isis russia and the obama administration? >> no. because russia believes that assad is a key in integral indispensa

iran. both the u.s. and russiae been involved in effort to reach a deal with tehran by the end of june. and they plan to talk about syria. well, we have full coverage with rory challands in sochi, and rosiland jordan standing by in washington, d.c. where officials have described the meeting as a critical moment. let's go first to rory though in sochi. do we know anything about how the talks are going? because we are expecting to hear from the two leaders, aren't we? >> reporter: yeah we have been told that we're expecting a press conference any time in this next hour. the talks have been fairly long. vladimir putin and john kerry have been in the meeting room together for at least a couple of hours so far, and before that there were four hours of meetings with the russian foreign minister. if you listened to the russian commentary over the last couple of days. they have been quite positive that this meeting might produce, well, something in the -- they are hoping for anyway along the lines of a softening of u.s. ap

russia. he will see the russian president tomorrow in sochi, the site of last year's winter olympics. talks will focus on ukraine, irana. ties between russia and the west have been damaged by the fighting in ukraine and the west has imposed economic sanctions on russia and accused vladimir putin of supplying pro-russian separatists with weapons and trips. news from citigroup on the libor scandal -- the justice department has the client to prosecute allegations of alleged rigging of the interest rate. citibank says it's in talks with other groups and this one could involve a guilty plea. network's orderly profits beat analyst estimates and a imposed a pricing increase in january and february. its so-called skinny bundle that sells for $20 a month. china is the biggest market for smart phones in the world but the market is getting smaller. new information shows shipments of full-featured mobile phones dropped by 4% in the first quarter, the first time that has happened in six years. experts say the reason for the decline is simple -- there are no more first-time buyers in china. those are your top stories this morning.

. >> we're getting creamed on social media, not just by isis, but also by russia, iran and syria. >> the amount of people who have been drawn to the syria iraq theater is greater already than it was during the afghan soviet war in term of the numbers of foreign fighters that have come. social media plays a big part in that. >> reporter: there are as many as 46,000 twitter accounts linked to isis. the u.s. is countering with barely a handful of sites that are not widely followed. in washington scott broom, wusa9. >> there have been 40 terrorism- related arrests in this country in just the last eight months. >>> coming up, laughing through childbirth? how this gas is making labor almost a breeze for some moms. >> but first molotov cocktails and bullets line 1 neighborhood and right now police on the hunt trying to find out who did it and why. >> a c evening, doppler radar quiet. let me show you futurecast, a little snapshot in time. about 10:30 tonight, 69 in gaithersburg, 70 in leesburg, 71 downtown, mid-60s in manassas and generally clea >>> frightening video out of miami, home surve

he still has strong backing from iran and russia, so it's a question of just surviving. it seems like the war is starting to shift against him but i think those people who think that this war is going to come to an end any time soon need to think again. he's still--bashar al-assad is still powerful in large parts of syria. i don't think it's going to end any time soon. >> when he does go, if it leads to that, what sort of space will syria be at that stage? >> it will be a nightmare. it will be a hellhole. the report issued this month on barrel bombs was called a circle of hell. and so it will be a breeding ground for radicalization, for the type of groups that we have all been concerned about in the region primarily isis to build support, and it will an tragedy first and foremost for the people of syria. it will be tragedy for region, as a result of the devastating effects that have engulfed syria over the past four years. >> thank you for explaining the circle of hell across syria. >> thanks. >> an air base in the capital of sanaa, coalition planes hit two compounds. ho

. >> we're getting creamed on social media the just by isis, but russia, iran and syria. >> the amount of people that have been drawn to the syria iraq theater is greater than it was during the african soviet war in terms of the number of foreign fighters who have come. social media plays a very big part in that. >> the study found more than 46,000 twitter accounts linked to isis compared to just a handful of counter accounts operated on behalf of the united states government. >>> people in nepal today mark the end of a 13 day mourning period for those killed in the country's massive earthquake. at least 1,000 people marched in a vigil, many holding candles. the magnitude 7.8 quake killed more than 7,700 people. >>> four nepal residents are alive tonight because of a hi- tech new device helping search and rescue crews in their race against time. >> it's called finder and uses radar technology to detect heartbeats of victims trapped beneath rubble. our andrea mccarren shows us how it works. >> if you can hear me, tap. >> reporter: in this simulated rescue searchers hear the sounds of li

one of them is yemen, another is syria and and his biggest partner or biggest ally is russia and finally, iranhe united states and its allies along with russia want to get a deal with iran by the end of june bring a run back into the oil market than they need the russians on board. after we had that tentative deal in switzerland about a month ago, putin cannot exit now we will sell antiaircraft. that cut the u.s. off guard. they want putin on their side particularly when it comes to the process of removing sanctions. lasting united states once is for the u.s. to go rogue and to go into the market before western european companies start to do that. >> talking of european companies, under terrific pressure as are many companies under the last 12 months, how are they getting around this? >> we have some excellent reporting today that a company that no one has ever heard of. you should say that no one that isn't already investing in russia. the fourth largest oil producer in russia. $25 billion. the cash they have on their books is $34 billion. it is like buying a house for $34,000 knowing there i

russia's ally. also efforts to reach a final nuclear deal with iran. chris jansing joins us. chris, what are the expectations for this meeting? >> well tamron i think limited, it didn't get off to an auspicious start as john kerry was on his way to sochi, the foreign ministry put out a statement criticizing the u.s. position on ukraine. having said that there are a number of very important things on the agenda iran being one of them one of the things that the united states is very concerned about is the sale of missile defense systems, they'd like to stop that. they are going to be talking about syria, john kerry would love to put more pressure on vladimir putin in terms of not supporting bashar al assad, something that has met with a lot of international pressure but to no avail so far, and i think there's absolutely something important just about the face-to-face meeting. while it's very common or at least much more frequent for john kerry to meet with his counterpart, sergey lavrov it's only the second time he'll have met with vladimir putin, who really makes the decisions

russia. a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of vladimir putin. even when he was not in power pulled a lot of the strings. charlie: let me just stay with iran. will come back to russia in a moment. you have said the u.s. is holding back against isis because it does not want to upset iran. holding back? senator rubio: absolutely. iran is on the ground in iraq heavily. not just advisers. iranian fighters on the ground side-by-side with shia militias. they are agents of the iranian government. iran does not want the u.s. presence in iraq of any kind. they have tolerated airstrikes because they can't stop them. they are not happy with u.s. engagement. they have trafficked in outrageous rumors which i believe some of them believe -- that the u.s. is actually helping and we help them prevent isis. they don't want us there and don't want any american presence. i believe the militias on the ground pose and extraordinary threat to american facilities. they are embedded side-by-side with regular iraqi forces and have full access to all of the iraqi government buildings. i believe that the united states had taken a more aggressive position -- charlie:

we did nothing and in the vacuum entered iran, entered russia and entered hezbollah.nd they controlled syria today. that was not inevitable. that was a failure of policy. it was not lack of prediction it was a lack of action when the truth and the history of the events became obvious and we did nothing. >> one thing. catherine touched on and the book touches on. i don't know -- we don't want to go into how much, but the talking points and you covered this a lot steve. >> it would be very interesting to see what morell says in the broad are book about his role in the talking points. >> this is the benghazi. >> the benghazi talking points because it was fairly clear at the time that he was not honest that he mislead members of congress and he did so repeatedly. this is not me saying this. this is not idol speculation it sounds like from the "new york times" review that morell tries to spin this as grand conspiracy theory there are five u.s. senators that said on the record that mike morell mislead them about benghazi. that is not a small thing to have to answer for. >>

because of its alliance with iran and russia. amy: what is the role of saudi arabia?t is been consistent from the beginning. he wanted to cialis thrown out and was given funding and arms to anyone who would do that. does it wanted to cialis on thrown out and was giving funding and arms to anyone who would do that. it gave the supplies to people like that. [indiscernible] nermeen: what you think accounts for the fact he was policy is to put in iraq that it is from syria? >> as i said, they want the regime in damascus to fall because of its relationship with iran, it support for hezbollah and its alliance with russia. it wants the regime to go. in baghdad, they want the regimes [indiscernible] these two regimes in baghdad and damascus or the posted -- forces opposed to the islamic front in the atomic front once to overthrow both of them. until there is a court nation forces from the syrian army and the west, the iraqi army and the kurds in east to have a coherent strategy to squeeze the islamists, the war will go on and on. amy: the significance of the u.s. announcing t

we did nothing and in the vacuum entered iran, entered russia and entered hezbollah.ria today. that was not inevitable. that was a failure of policy. it was not lack of prediction it was a lack of action when the truth and the history of the events became obvious and we did nothing. >> one thing. catherine touched on and the book touches on. i don't know -- we don't want to go into how much, but the talking points and you covered this a lot steve. >> it would be very interesting to see what morell says in the broad are book about his role in the talking points. >> this is the benghazi. >> the benghazi talking points because it was fairly clear at the time that he was not honest that he mislead members of congress and he did so repeatedly. this is not me saying this. this is not idol speculation it sounds like from the "new york times" review that morell tries to spin this as grand conspiracy theory there are five u.s. senators that said on the record that mike morell mislead them about benghazi. that is not a small thing to have to answer for. >> we will cover that co

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. -- iran. russia has to protect the port.ls were to attack the port i russia would defend it. that would change dynamics. there are a number of situation -- scenarios that could alter the state of affairs. right now i do believe the leadership of king abdullah in jordan along with many other nations has been a godsend because he has really impacted and curtailed a lot of the isis effort. in iraq itself, we see success on the ground. militias are posturing. iraq you slowly rejecting that. that is positive. we see u.s. airstrikes and special operation forces on the ground working with tribal leaders and others and the legitimate forces of iraq making turnarounds. tikkrit, where i was was a mess. we are seeing gains. we have to watch it very carefully. host: mike, washington, oklahoma. republican line. is washington, oklahoma, in your district? guest: i do not believe it is. it is nice to hear from a fellow . caller: you appear to be a straightforward and honest than, and my hope is you can continue that way because i know it is

russia. in light of the emerging iran nuclear deal, russia has argued that a defense shield is no longer necessary and they've also according to u.s. officials, been extremely helpful during the p5+1 talks. does russia have a valid point in bringing this up in light of the emerging p5+1 deal? >> just so i heard the question, first of all, if you look at the capacity of the system that we're installing in europe, this is the analog of the fact that our national ballistic defense missile system is not in line with russia. we don't have the capacity. with a large reasonably powerful country like russia could overwhelm that system fairly quickly. it's just not about them. they shouldn't worry about this. they should actually be encouraged that we are helping our allies there potentially defending iranian or other threatening from the regions. in regards to p5+1 this agreement is not concluded yet and once concluded you know we still have to make sure that iran sticks to it. and a ballistic missile defense system isn't something that you turn on overnight. and, in fact it would probably take us long or

these are nation state actors including or semistate nation actors including china, north korea, iran, russia former soviet union sponsored states and individuals and enterprises associated with them and very sophisticated international crime syndicates. if one of those entities triangulates on a company, it's not going to end well for that company or their customers. we need a rebus response to these threats and the fact this committee is paying attention to these issues we appreciate it very much. thanks to the house for passing legislation. we hope the senate does the same. we're not talking about sharing personal information but that threat information sharing bill is very helpful to this cause and make being the country more prepared to again against these threats. as it relates to the financial service sector and the payment system our sector as the chairman mentioned has been dealing with these issues in a regulated context for quite some time. in 1999 act, part of it was to visit on this industry enforcement mechanisms in part of the examination process, that has serve the industry we

these are nation state actors including or semistate nation actors including china, north korea, iran, russia, former sovietupon sponsored states, and individuals and enterprises associated with them with sophisticated crime syndicates. if one of the entities focuses on a company, it's not going to end well for the company or customers. we need a robust, muscular response to the threats, and the fact this committee's paying attention to the issues, we appreciate it very much. mr. chairman, thank you to the house for passing on more than one occasion threat information legislation and legislation that we hope the senate does the same, not sharing personal information, but the threat information sharing bill is helpful to the cause in making the country prepared to defend against threats. relating to the financial services sector and payments system, our sector, as the chairman mentioned, dealt with the issues in a regulated context for quite some time. it was passed in 1999, part of the act, of course, was to visit upon this industry, debt of security standards and enforcement mechanisms inclu

these are nationstate actors including china north korea iran russia former soviet union sponsored state individual enterprises have very sophisticated international crime syndicates. if one of those entities triangulate that a company can't a company, it's likely not going to end well for the company or customers. we need a more robust response to these threats and the fact this committee is paid attention to these issues we appreciate very much. thank you to the house for passing more than one occasion threat information legislation. we hope the senate does the same. we are not talking about sharing personal information, but that is very helpful to this cause became the country were prepared. as it relates to service the dirt and payment system, our secretary and chairman mentioned to dealing with these issues for quite some time. graham leach bliley in 1899 with enforcement mechanisms in vb examination process has served the industry well as you look at the percent of breaches taken place in recent years. our sector has the lowest breach incident rates still have a lot of work to do b

. -- iran. russia has to protect the port. if radicals were to attack the port i russia would defend it. that would change dynamics. there are a number of situation -- scenarios that could alter the state of affairs. right now i do believe the leadership of king abdullah in jordan along with many other nations has been a godsend because he has really impacted and curtailed a lot of the isis effort. in iraq itself, we see success on the ground. militias are posturing. iraq you slowly rejecting that. that is positive. we see u.s. airstrikes and special operation forces on the ground working with tribal leaders and others and the legitimate forces of iraq making turnarounds. tikkrit, where i was was a mess. we are seeing gains. we have to watch it very carefully. host: mike, washington, oklahoma. republican line. is washington, oklahoma, in your district? guest: i do not believe it is. it is nice to hear from a fellow . caller: you appear to be a straightforward and honest than, and my hope is you can continue that way because i

russia is assad's biggest ally. like iran from the june 30 deadline where we need a deal. the u.s. wants to make sure they are synced up with the russians as to how the end of sanctions would work these of the iran -- vis a vis iran. the u.s. wants it to be coordinated. everyone was surprised when the russian president came out after the tentative deal and said we are going to start selling antiaircraft systems to the iran ians again. the u.s. and a lot of europeans said that is getting ahead of ourselves. they want to make sure they are on the same page. how flexible as the russian president willing to be not talking about ukraine. guy: the oil industry is going to be paying attention. going to take the temperature of what is happening vis a vis sanctions. walk us through what expectations are and how putin is playing that. ryan: russia's largest oil company rosneft has been hit by sanctions. difficult to raise money in foreign debt markets, difficult to raise money and capital markets. there's a question about how they are

russia. if it means iran's relationship with the west improves. also even rumblings that if the west is not understanding on the ukraine, russia can be less helpful on iran. i am from the older generation that sees what happens in the russian press is not accidental. would anyone care to comment on russia's motives. and how helpful it is. i would appreciate it. ambassador wittig: to be straightforward, we thought a decision to deliver those kinds of weapons were not helpful at all for the process. it was a deplorable decision. also, let me remind you this was not a decision that violated the arms embargo. it was not something that violated international law, but it was we believe, not helpful for the process. ambassador araud: it has always been important to show that is not the west against iran. and the russians and chinese are being perfect, loyal negotiators in this process. that is key. -- they are still. they are doing their part to work with us. as for the weapons, we share what peter said. also, the russians have taken the side that the sys

we'll take out worldwide challenges to america from russia iran, and china with our special guest. also here, president obama's own rebuffed his efforts to move ahead with what until now was a secret trade negotiation with 11 pacific room countries and asia, and latin america. negotiating secretly with china to sell it advanced nuclear reactors and advanced nuclear technology. president's prospect on that looking loudy if part because senate democrats voted to block legislation that would have granted the president authority to fast track international trade deals. we'll take that up with pulitzer prize winning journalist michael goodwin, and julie roginsky. and tom brady's agent said that his 4 game suspension is ridiculous. and the author of the levels -- wells report, said that no one should question his highly questionic findings. -- questionable findings, we have some of the best attorneys in the on business that case. we'll report, and analyze and you decide deflategate. but first other issues looming large. we begin in sochi russia. where the president dispatched secretary k

three countries iran, north korea and russia, threatening to proliferate nuclear weapons. o so without regard to treaties or international convention. iran's supreme leader effectively ending president obama's desperate drive to negotiate a so-called framework agreement to limit the development of nuclear weapons. today adamantly insisted as before will never permit foreign expections of iranian military sides or interviews with scientists under any nuclear agreement with any group of world power, ayatollah khomeini. such inspections are suspicious am a nuclear site, they would never be part of a credible framework. in addition to this north korea today announcing it has developed the ability to miniaturized nuclear weapons. it's a key step towards a nuclear warhead. and russia, now threatening the west with enlarging its nuclear arsenal to build more nuclear weapons adding to what is already the most powerful nuclear arsenal. and what did the obama white house do in response? out of our the president response? he did not respond at all. instead today he chose to focus on c

we have one proffer of cooperation going on at the moment and that's iran, where the u.s. and russia have been working together with each other to get iran around the negotiating table. the u.s. wants to nail down that nuclear deal with iran before the end of june. then there are two other big issues syria and ukraine where the two different countries are still poles apart on how they view those two situations. >> speaking of ukraine russia's involvement in ukraine is now spot lighted in this report that's been put forward by russia's opposition. what can you tell us about this report and what they are hoping to achieve? >> well, remember, this report was started by boris nemtsov the politician shot dead in moscow in february. now, he was halfway through that report. it has now been finished by his colleagues. they've just published it and what itwhat it highlights are a series of allegations against putin's administration, first of all the military involvement in ukraine and what that has cost russia financially. so in terms of military involvement, it's been looking at paratroopers