sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status a convention signed by russia iran as a by john kazakstan and. decades of dispute over the world's largest and close body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will require additional agreements. jordanian security forces have pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their collapsed hideout following a deadly shootout four soldiers were also killed when the assailants opened fire at a set of explosions late on saturday the clash west of the capital amman is one of the deadliest in recent years. voters in mali excuse me voters in mali went to the polls on sunday in a presidential runoff marred by reports of violence security sources say an election official was shot and killed by jihadists in the north of the country incumbent ibrahim. cast his vote in the capital bamako and he's up against so my let's just say one small loss to kate in twenty thirteen claims the west african state has become even more insecure indicators rule extremists killed three polling station workers and se

because the soviet union split up into its six successor states which included russia as a by john turkmenistan kazakstan so they all had their own national security issues they all had their own eyes on the particular. resources that were under the sea and they didn't agree with each other so that was why it has taken such a long time to come to some sort of agreement about this we have gone through twenty two years of of expert level meetings we have also had ten foreign minister meetings this is the fifth presidential level summits so there have been four before this one it has taken a long time to take a long time because the details are so thorny and also the stakes are so high there is a huge amount of oil and gas underneath the caspian sea. assessments from the united states government suggest that in gas alone if all the gas is under the caspian sea could be properly extracted and brought to market it could boost global output over the next ten years by twenty seven percent so this is not just the regional issue this is going to be something that is going to affect global energy markets for years

off to twenty two years of negotiations leaders of russia iran kazakstan as a by john antagonist on a sign an agreement on the legal status of the cast been seen as means the five countries can move ahead with sharing out results rich in body of water up the largest in the wild or a challenge reports from moscow. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakhstan four of the u.s.s.r. successor states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because we have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples have cheney and that means some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not dete