kishida made the pledge on friday when he met rafael grossi. >> translator: japan highly appreciates the iaea's efforts to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities in ukraine. >> the fact that we have conventional war, troops on the ground, in a country with such a vast nuclear infrastructure is posing extremely high challenges. >> grossi said ensuring the safety of workers at the plant is vital -- iaea chef plans to visit ukraine's largest plant. it's been occupied by russian forces and suffered a fire at a training facility in march. and as russian invasion raises the threat of nuclear war, officials are gearing up for the first funuclear ban treaty. earlier, ross mihara spoke with someone to get her analysis. >> how significant is this meeting right now? >> so the meeting is definitely timely. and the risk of nuclear attack is the highest since the cold war. we've also seen politicians pushing the importance of possessing nuclear weapons for deterrence, and that runs counter to what the ban is trying to accomplish. i spoke to a campaigner who was very involved in adopting the treat

plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium - this was announced in davos by the head of the iaea, rafael grossin for the largest nuclear power plant in europe, and it is not clear how the accumulated volumes fall under the treaties on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons indirectly. this confirms the plans of the ukrainian regime to create a dirty bomb. this has been stated many times, russia, warning that this project could become a reality in the very near future, the suppliers of nuclear fuel for the station in energodar in recent years could also answer the questions that arise. let me remind you that the american company westenhouse was engaged in this. now the zaporozhye npp is completely under the control of the russian military, who ensure its safety and work in cooperation with ukrainian scientific personnel, who continue to perform their functions. un development program experts have warned that the economic crisis with ukraine could provoke a default in seventy developing countries of the world. not to mention the food and energy crisis in europe, this is also an assessment made a

all of this is incredibly troubling as director general rafael grossi told the european parliament just earlier this month, he said, quote, iran, qualcomm has not been forthcoming in the kind of information we need from them. so mr. mali, were you aware of these efforts by iran to hide its prior nuclear work from the iaea? >> senator, did iran by? of course. did it iran have a covert nuclear program. >> was absolutely protect the reason why prior administrations of both such pressing sanctions on iran. >> was iran and compliance as you say in your testimony. >> with yes iran was in compliance with the jcpoa and please don't take my word for it. you can ask the iaea which is certified on numerous occasions and tell the trump administration -- >> let me interject respectfully, sarah. does the jcpoa require iran to allow iaea inspectors in to look at certain nuclear sites, did iran comply with those expressed terms of the jcpoa? >> yes, and yes. and again don't take my word for it. even the former administration had to certify that iran was in compliance and it did so repeatedly until it d