as the director general of the international atomic energy agency, rafael marianna grossi talks to al jazeera, ah, director general of the international atomic energy agency, rafael marianna grossi, thank you for talking to l. just my pleasure. good to see you. what do you think is the role of the a within the united nations and also now within the international community? well, the a year has multiple functions. that is sometimes identified as nuclear watchdog because we inspect nuclear facilities all over the world to ensure that nuclear material is not diverted for military uses for hostile uses. and that nuclear weapons are not, you know, developed where they shouldn't be developed. so it has a clear nonproliferation as it is called in the jargon nonproliferation activities . but that is not all. we also make sure that all the nuclear facilities in the world and what i mean nuclear facilities have a good nuclear power. plants operate safely, operate securely by setting standards, having missions to make sure that these nuclear power plants are ok air. but also on top of that, we h

international atomic energy agency has been speaking to our correspondent dosage of our in vienna. rafael grossi, alkali, the contentious issues under discussion. while it was a wide ranging discussion, we specifically talks about the role of the i, e a. but then we of course, talked about the j. c, t o, a and roughly grossi was very much adamant that it is a deal that is very, very important and critical for their work. they are not involved in the politics of this nuclear deal. they just want to verify what has been agreed to. he also talks about the issues that remain with iran. he admitted that iran is one of the, the country that has the most inspections of his nuclear program in the world. but despite that, he said there are still issues that they are discussing with iran. and that is a cause for concern for the i e a. and this is what he had to say about that specific those issues the agency and iran are trying to come to an agreement on or basically 2 things. one is the capability or the ability of the agency to return to one facility, one specific facility in iran, where we need to rein

a chief. rafael grossi is on talk to al 0830 . i was gmc tomorrow, sunday. local elections that are happening in the occupied west bank today with about 400000 palestinians eligible to vote. these are the 1st poles in 2 years, but the leaders of butter and hammers remain at all. so when to hold a general election, the last one of those was 15 years ago, a correspondent needed abraham in the okay, by the way, back now with a look at what the local polls might tell us about the biggest political picture in palestine. these women are running for the local council and are feed us family village in the north of the occupied bank. the visiting potential voters to campaigned for the electoral list with 6000 voters in the village or religion to choose 11 council members. 20 percent of local council seats have to include women by law, while women here are active in the campaign. photos of them were missing from the campaign. posters. in many villages, faces of women were replaced by pictures of flowers or other graphics because of conservative views. if you mail acti

international atomic energy agency chief says the organization wants to rein stolen cameras. rafael mariana grossi says, ron, it needs to be more transparent about its nuclear program. the ages he and iran are trying to come to an agreement on or basically 2 things. one is the capability or the ability of the agency to return to one facility, one specific facility in iran, where we need to reinstall cameras that need to be there. and it has been difficult to to this. so we have been talking about these and the other thing is how to address a number of issues which need to be clarified. the agency founder traces of nuclear material in places that had not been declared before. and you can say the full interview with c i. e, a shave on talk to al jazeera. at 430 jim came on saturday. he was president. joe biden says he's very concerned about a supreme court decision to keep abortion codes in texas, but, but inhaled the ruling that allows abortion providers to challenge the state law banning procedures after 6 weeks. the law which came into effect in september is american strictest. it bars the proced

e, a chief rafael at grossi on talk, 120. but i wait 30 gmc on sunday. now the huntsman stepped up for finds his hiding in thick forests of eastern congo. soldiers from uganda. the army recently crossed into democratic republic of congo to track down the allied democratic forces. the joint military operations as early successes include enemy camps, destroyed, fight is captured, and hostages freed. malcolm webb has the story. over the last 10 days, the people of this small board of town in democratic republic of congo have seen thousands of uganda and troops crossing you can, his army says it in congo to hunt down an armed grave called the allied democratic forces abs, which is blamed for killing thousands of civilians in this area over the last 7 years. you got an army has been accused of meddling and looting minerals in congo several times since it 1st invaded 25 years ago. to be honest, we did not celebrate the arrival of began to troops crossing a border, but we hope they can help deal with the insecurity that we've been facing for a long time. the ad