rouhani has said. a ron experienced its most serious political unrest. -- iran expresses moser is political unrest. expressed its most serious political unrest. there was suppression of the students. rouhani systematically was banning newspapers. expecting that mr. rouhani is going to allow freedom of the press. why? why? this is the mistake of the press. they do not take a look at the history of the individual. therefore they have expectations which are totally immature. some government people in tehran have this explanation. this is why they voted for rouhani. they are young and naÏve. people are not so young, but they are naÏve. this is the probably have with the u.s. government view. >> i think 90% of the discourse about the nuclear issue is about how to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. hundreds of millions of people have been killed in the last hundred 50 years. 200,000 in syria. 800,000 in ravana. -- rwanda. i think it's time to restore the focus to the human rights question. one senior

rouhani. it was mr. rouhani who systematically as chairman of the supreme national security newspapers,banning and now people are expecting that mr. rouhani, of all people, is going to allow freedom of the press? why? y echo -- why? the is the mistake of press, that they do not pay attention. they do not take a look at the history of those individuals. and therefore, we have expectations that are totally immature. some people in tehran have these kinds of expectations. this is why they voted for mr. romney, but you cannot blame them. they are young and not -- mr. rouhani, but you cannot blame them. they are young and naÏve. here in washington, this is the problem i have when it comes to the u.s. government view of the rouhani cabinet. discord --een the discourse about the nuclear issue and most of it has been how to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. with purely conventional arms, hundreds of millions of people have been killed in the last 100, 150 years. 200,000 people slaughtered in syria. 800,

president hassan rouhani is an influential person. and the presidential debates that he participated in and won, were more diverse and hard-hitting than anything seen in the united states. so the very fact - if your viewers were able to look at the iranian presidential debate, and the previous ones that mahmoud ahmadinejad wants, and compare it to the american presidential debate, or debates between the leaders of the different parties, you'll see that in iran is far for aggressive, diverse opinions of the candidates. the naraive that we see in the west is dictatorship. a country where people do not have rites. ironically, public participation in elections is higher than in the west. >> okay, thank you very much for joining us there from tehran. >> thank you for having me >>> now, for the first time those injured in a decades-long fight with f.a.r.c. rebels are about to meet the former enemies. it's the main element in a round of peace talks. this report from bogota, the most difficult part of the peace process yet. >> reporter: 14 ye

even rouhani said so. his predecessor mahmood ahmadinejad had pushed the country to the brink.s representation was in tatters, a decade of nuclear tax have gone nowhere. >> the tone has changed dramatically. the fact that iranian and american officials are in regular contact and have no problems sitting down at the same table is a dramatic shift from the ahmadinejad years. >> in doing so, rouhani's government has secured a temperature rare nuclear deal. it has seen limited sanctions removed from iran. the economy is growing again. rouhani's charm offensive has draw presidents, prime ministers, and international business back to iran, and has made him a hero at home. it's also helped calm the waters between iran and it's persian gulf neighbors who are worried about tehran's regional nuclear ambitions. instead of focusing on relationships with russia and latin american countries like his predecessors did, rouhani is making these regional relationships his priority. while foreign policy takes up so much of his time civil rights have not improved, and that's the one thing that iran

all of them strategically agreed that a nuclear bomb rouhani is desirable. all of them strategically agree that a nuclear bomb is desirable. mr. rouhani believes that, so does the supreme leader. they believe god is on their side. each group has used different tactics. mr. rouhani's goal is longer-term, they believe right now iran is on the verge of bankruptcy and sanction relief is needed to keep the system afloat. on the other hand, you have the revolutionary guard. the revolutionary guard wants to get the bomb as fast as possible. they believe fundamentally it would end like pakistan's nuclear bomb, iran would be forgiven and sanctions would be beoved because i run would -- i ran would be a a nuclear armed state. no one would like to see and economically bankrupt nuclear power. the argument that the revolutionary guard is making. mr. khamenei is oscillating between the two power centers. every second day he extends support to the line of mr. rouhani, the second day he supports the revolutionary guard and says he does not believe in a positive outcome of t

but a year in to rouhani's presidential term that is mostly no longer the case, say analysts. >> thenship with the united states in iran in tone has changed dramatically. but moreover, fact that iranian and iranian officials are now in regular contact, that the foreign ministers regularly talk to each other and have no problem sitting down at the same table is a dramatic shift than what it was before. >> reporter: in doing so, rouhani's government secured a temporary nuclear deal. it has seen limited sanctions removed from iran. the value of the iranian real has stabilized and the economy is growing again. his charm offensive has drawn presses, prime ministers and international business back to iran and has made him a hero at home. it's also helped calm the waters between iran and its parisian gulf neighbors worried about teheran's regional and nuclear ambitions, so instead of trying focus strengthening relationships with russia and latin american countries like his predecessor did, did the thgovernment of rouhani is makig hess relationships a priority. civil rights have not improved

hassan rouhani said so. iranians say his predecessor mahmoud ahmadinejad pushed the country to the brink. the economy crashed, iran's international reputation was in tatters. a decade of nuclear talks had gone nowhere. the threat of war had gone nowhere. a year into the term - that is almost no longer the case. >> the relationship with united states and iran in tone changed dramatically. moreover, the fact that iranian and american officials are in regular contact, the foreign ministers talk to each other regularly and have no problem sitting at the same table is a dramatic shift from the mahmoud ahmadinejad years. >> reporter: in doing so hassan rouhani's government secured a temporary nuclear deal. it's seeing limited sanctioned. the currency value stabilized. the economy is growing. hassan rouhani's charm has drawn presidents, prime ministers and international business back to iran. and it's made him a hero at home. >> it's also helped calm the waters between iran and its persian gulf neighbours, worried

ahmadinejad af rouhani. the israeli position hasor remained the same. therefore, it doesn't matter ifr someone in iran denies holocaut or condemned holocaust.ir it is just some instrument to use and play against iran in international public opinion to play with the image of iran. otherwise, just tell me any changes in netanyahu's position when they congrated jews for their new year. they powerfully condemned the a holocaust. israeli position isan the same. therefore, i don't believe a change in iranian position would matter. this is the fact, i mean. you can compare. one. second, the problem with the recognition of israel, i really do know -- i'm very surprised in the u.s. why everybody is talking about iran not recognizing israel. 90% of muslim countries, they do not recognize israel. major overwhelming majority of u.s. st allies, they do not recognize israel, like saudi arabia. why you are talking only about iran? if you can convince the u.s. ia. allies to recognize israel, thea come to iran in negotiate with iran. but for 40, 50 years, you have c not

. >> now, it's been a year since hassan rouhani took office as the iranian president. he offered a series of promises, civil rights, freedom and sanctions and disputes over iran's nuclear programme. what has he delivered so for. we take a look. >> 37 million iranians went to the ballot box hoping for better times. with the weight of their expectations, hassan rouhani stepped into the role as president. political, pragmatic and patriotic. >> i'm proud that the great people of iran, the honourable people thought i diseshed this -- deserved this. enhancing people's lives and welfare, preserving national pride and interest. i feel i need your assistance along the path and need you to be there, need your cooperation. >> it was going to be a long shot. hassan rouhani said so. his predecessor mahmoud ahmadinejad pushed the country to the brink. the economy crashed. the international reputation was in tatters. a decade of nuclear talks went no wear. that is mostly no longer the case say analysts. >> the relationship changed dramatically. the fact that iranian and regular offic

rouhani. in tehran and washington, exactly the mirror image. >> yeah, hello. thank you for your presentation. i'm in international peace and security consultant. and i have a question vis-a-vis your opposition that the u.s. is gradually, gradually disassociating or disengaging in the middle east. and i want to bring you forward two years from now where we have an incoming -- it's a hypothetical. incoming republican president in washington, republicans hold a majority in the two houses, and i want you to put your book and its recommendations two years from now in the future. and i want you to pay particular attention in your response to the issue of u.s. commitments to israel. thank you. >> no, i have no doubt about u.s. commitments to israel. and it is israel who has declined president obama's attempt for peace process. it was not iran. you know better than me how much you -- the u.s. president, john kerry, invested on two-state solution. and who declined, who opposed the u.s. president and the u.s. secretary of state. it was netanyahu. and despite all these f

all of them strategically agreed rouhani isear bomb desirable. all of them strategically agrees that a nuclear bomb is desirable. mr. rouhani believes that, so does mr. rafsanjani. is on their god side. each group has used different tactics. mr. rouhani's goal is longer-term, they believe right now iran is on the verge of bankruptcy and sanction relief is needed to keep the system afloat. on the other hand, you have the revolutionary guard. the revolutionary guard wants to get the bomb as fast as possible. they believe fundamentally it would end like pakistan's nuclear bomb, iran would be forgiven and sanctions would be removed because you round would the a nuclear armed state. no one would like to see and economically bankrupt nuclear power. the argument that the revolutionary guard is making. mr. khamenei is oscillating between the two power centers. every second day he extends support to the line of mr. day he, the second supports the revolutionary guard and says he does not believe in a positive outcome of the nuclear negotiations. on the one

assesses the state of iran under rouhani. on the next washington journal, washington examiner kleintary editor philip discusses president obama's foreign and domestic policy challenges and previews the upcoming midterm congressional elections. adam green, cofounder of the compressive chain committee outlines the political and legislative agenda of progressive groups for the 2014 elections. senior staff writer gordon lubold talks about the threat with isis. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal, live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> former president jimmy carter gave a keynote speech on the first day of the islamic society of north america's annual convention in detroit. he talked about the work the carter center is doing, including the involvement in the middle east peace process. he received criticism for greeting to speak at this forum. this is about 15 minutes. >> well, first of all, i want to thank you for that introduction. also for helping us in one of our projects at

summer shows is a reigning regime is as strong as ever from the regime's point of view so hassan rouhani was elected it was granted more moderate with iran's theocratic system but he's still a regime insider. he was still on the slate of candidates preapproved by the supreme leader so power pass without controversy and without protest to a hand-picked candidate of the supreme leader. i think what the election shows is the current government is even stronger than it was in 2009. i think united states is doing something to encourage democracy. in iran there've been reports about the ad states in providing information technology that would allow opposition movements in iran to communicate and organize so i think there are some steps in that direction. and potentially we could do more but i think we still have the same problem i talked about in my opening remarks which is that the current government is strong enough now that it's hard for me to see how they fall in time for it to solve the nuclear problem for us. we are engaged in these negotiations and the deadline for the next to get this

on the other hand you do have more moderate forces in iran and i think rouhani the current presidentand the foreign minister represent that point of view. i think they think international isolation is not good for iran and they understand the economy is being badly damaged so they would like to get relief and i think they're willing to put curbs on the nuclear program to get that. the important thing to point out is that the supreme leader is the ultimate decision-maker. the supreme leader is looking at these viewpoints in making the final decision. historically the supreme leader has been more on the hard-line cap than the moderate camp. i think what he is trying to do is have his cake and eat it too you'd like to have nuclear weapons or not as advanced nuclear program as possible and get sanctions relief. i think probably that is what iran is trying to achieve in these negotiations. in terms of addressing the demand in foreign policy we often talk about using carrots and sticks. promising carrots or inducements for good baker and threatening sticks for bad behavior. what many peopl

could you tell us what your assessment is of the hardliner challenged that -- of president rouhani and how far can he go before the tightrope that he is seemingly walking on will snap? >> if you could make it very simple for you. what is the role of hard-liners here in washington? the problems of president obama and congress. this is exactly the same for dr. rohan in tehran. the radicals, the hard-liners in tehran and washington exactly the mirror image. >> hello thank you for your presentation. i'm international peace and security consultant and i have a question on your position that the u.s. is gradually, gradually disassociating or disengaging in the middle east. i want to bring you forward two years from now where we have an incoming, it's a hypothetical, and incoming republican president in washington. republicans hold the majority in the two houses and i want you to put your book and its recommendations two years from now and the future and i want you to pay particular attention in your response to the issue of u.s. commitments to israel. thank you. >> i have no doubts about u.s

president rouhani was advocating two days ago really goes much further. it has to be the way it was the 1960s where information was provided to the other party in such a way that was able to verify the statements without going into the country. this is a new challenge which in my view should be part of whatever is the interim deal or final deal. i think it's a great book but i have not yet read it. i will do it during the weekend. >> thank you for those comments ali and thank you so much for coming. i think you raise an excellent point to get greater transparency and more than what they iaea can provide that would be great. on this challenge that you propose to iran stopping just short of the line and staying there i think that is a possible option but i think that's a not a long-term stable option. i don't see why iran would stop short when they got that close. again if iran's major closer to the to the dfar attack having advanced nuclear facilities doesn't allow you to deter foreign attack. having nuclear weapons and the ability to retaliate with nuclea

his impeachment was by a group of hardliners in parliament, trying to sabotage president hassan rouhani's efforts at reform. >>> guatemala is one of the world's top exporters of bananas, they provide employment for tens of thousands of workers. labour rights groups say they are working continues. david mercer has got more. >> here on guatemala's coast, banana workers meat to talk about the violations. they were fired and blacklisted for complaining about the myselfing wamers. he wants local forces to help protect their rights. guatemala is notoriously antiunion, and colleagues are worried. >> translation: the guys are 100% scared to speak out for fear of losing the job and the way they support the children. the payment is not right. >> guatemala is the third largest exporter. more than 40,000 women work in the industry. international groups accuse some producers of exploitive continue. they are the worst in the roger mercados. guatemala is an original banana republic. it's a legacy that thousands are working to change. >> reporter: over on the caribbean coast, banana workers have importan

president rouhani considers the actions illegal.he ebola virus has now claimed more than 1500 lives in west africa. more than half of those in effected, a drug seeming effective, both have been treated with zmapp, doctors are not clear that the drug saved them from ebola which is still spreading. >> ebola today in sierra leon is a crisis. they is time to avoid in sierra leone, there is time to avoid a catastrophe but only if immediate and urgent action is taken at every level. >> yesterday senegal confirmed its first case of ebola, a man who traveled there from guinea three weeks ago. >>> doesn't have a name yet but a new drug may prove to be one of the biggest advances in cardiac care in years. a medication made by novartis, lowered risk by 20%. the drug was the subject of a trial involving 8500 people. the drug was halted early because the benefits were so clear cut. the results being published in the new england journal of medicine. reality of this situation is quite different. a city's struggle in china, coming up next on al jaz

davies, how has rouhani's regime altered the north korea-iran relationship? >> i'm not sure i'm qualified to describe what is happening between those two countries, other than that we watch very closely any proliferation or signs of proliferation that might exist between north korea and his regime. >> does administration have any evidence or reason to suggest that north korea and iran have intentionally focus on different aspects of nuclear weapons capability to speed up the final results for both countries be? with great respect are starting to get me down deep in intelligence matters and this are the sorts of things would be very happy to brief you on in a closed hearing. again, it's a matter of serious concentration and strong study by the administration. >> to iran and north korea's cooperation in the past, do you think it's likely that north korea would share any future nuclear test data with iran's? >> that -- you are calling for speculation on the part of the witness. i just don't know. spent i don't think we are bound by the federal rules of civil --

raised in iran, and recognized the iranian president rouhani who congratulated her on twitter. >>> egypt's uprising of 2011, said he never targeted his own people. last year a court threw out a case on similar charges. >>> eduardo campos was killed in a small plane crash in brazil. the port city of santos. all seven people on board the plane died. >>> and there was late word from cairo where peace talks are continuing that the temporary ceasefire between fighters in gaza and israel has been extended for another five days. this is the longest ceasefire yet and it is meant to keep the guns silence long enough to get a permanent truce in place. but it nearly fell apart earlier after israel reported that hamas rockets were fired from gaza just before the last truce expired. and an associated press video journalist was among five people killed when an unexploded israeli missile exploded in gaza. al jazeera am nick schifrin is on the ground for us in jerusalem. nick, talk to us a little bit about the these lates rocket reports. >> any strike during a ceasefire is serious because the chances of t

met with president hassan rouhani and the foreign minister. he was given assurances that iran would cooperate with an i.a.e.a. inspection. the visit coming as world powers attempt to strike a deal with iran over its contested nuclear programme. >>> at least four suspected al qaeda operatives and a soldier have been killed in yes 'em when soldiers -- yemen when soldiers targeted a house. the government forces have been targetting members in the arabian peninsula in the area >>> al jazeera is demanding the release of its three journalists imprisoned in egypt for 232 days. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood in june mohamed fadel fahmy and peter gres peter greste were given 7 year sentences. baher mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession, picked up at a protest. >>> egypt's military arrested several suspected much being involved in bombing gerptors. as gerald tan reports, the violence is part of a trend against the new governmen

davies, how has rouhanis regime altered the north korean relationship. >> i'm not sure i'm qualified to speak on what's happening between those two countries however we watch very closely for signs between the north koreans and their regime. >> is there any reason to suggest that north korea and iran have intentionally focused on different aspects of nuclear weapons capabilities to try to speed up effect for both countries. >> it's a matter of serious concentration and strong suddensudden study by the administration. >> given iran's and north korea's cooperation. do you think it's likely that north korea would share any future test data with iran? >> you're calling for speculation on the part of the witness. i just don't know. >> i don't think we're bound by the federal rules of civil -- >> no. i'm sorry. again, i mean i think the intelligence information -- >> the witness will answer the question. thank you your honor. >> you may proceed. >> pardon me would you like to restate that? >> it's the concern that iran and north korea have cooperated in the past. >> i think there's every i

summer shows is a reigning regime is as strong as ever from the regime's point of view so hassan rouhani was elected it was granted more moderate with iran's theocratic system but he's still a regime insider. he was still on the slate of candidates preapproved by the supreme leader so power pass without controversy and without protest to a hand-picked candidate of the supreme leader. i think what the election shows is the current government is even stronger than it was in 2009. i think united states is doing something to encourage democracy. in iran there've been reports about the ad states in providing information technology that would allow opposition movements in iran to communicate and organize so i think there are some steps in that direction. and potentially we could do more but i think we still have the same problem i talked about in my opening remarks which is that the current government is strong enough now that it's hard for me to see how they fall in time for it to solve the nuclear problem for us. we are engaged in these negotiations and the deadline for the next to get this

the president hassan rouhani said that some of the companies supply medical plies to iranians, and called them a crime against humanity. >>> ukraine's president says his country is at the brink of a full-scale civil war. petro porashenko says the country is closed to a point of no return. this happening as e.u. leaders threaten moscow. on saturday pro-russian separatists made gapes in the east, moving into a small town outside of luhansk. heavy shelling destroyed every home in that area. the strikes are coming from kremlin troops that crossed the border. in a diplomatic twist, the two countries are carrying out a swath of captured soldiers, all happening while russia plans to send a second convoy of aid. dozens of white trucks hike that were stationed -- like that were stationed near donetsk, ready to deliver aid. russia's foreign minister claimed kiev had given approvals and aid delivers would be coordinated with the red cross. >> in pakistan, protests broke out between police and protesters. >> more than 400 were wounded. 300 kills. thousands of protesters surrounded the home of nawaz s

we did that before the election of rouhani. what damages credibility is our syria policy. basically every times. , we comehe news cycle up with that initiative that looks like were going to do something about the syrian problem and then we don't follow through on it. most obviously the strikes on syria, the proposed strikes last september. the latest example is the president speech at west point where he laid out this $500 million for the syrian opposition. when you start looking into the details you see that it is not getting appropriate until december and the program will not be up and running until .anuary or everywhere he we are talking about two years down the line. burger dressed up as helping the syrian opposition. states andthe united we have enormous resources and power. if we just start doing stuff, people have to listen to us. >> ryan, i think it comes back to the question i want to ask you. when you said it might be too late right now to do much with the syrian opposition, why? this is the united states. we have stepped into iraq. why is it too late, and is tha

. >> although i find it incredible that president rouhani of iran is now backing president obama sayingican candidate to replace maliki, al-abadi. >> we cannot forget the news flow on the mountainside of the southern border of syria. >> there have been three drops of humanitarian aid? do i have that right? >> beachwood are -- yes. the twitter feed is shocking. >> people being hunted down essentially by islamic state, they are now going back to syria for safety. >> syria is safer than iraq? >> it is really grim. the confluence of events and the quiet of the last 12 hours leads us to another 48 hours. we are really going to see some -- we have to pay attention to it. >> we do. tom, you are headed over to radio where "bloomberg surveillance" continues. if you cannot live without tom, please turn on your radio. >> the jolts job opening survey. posted 4.63 5 million jobs in the u.s. since june highest of 2007. what do you make of that? the fact that we are posting jobs. >> again, we are back to this kind of mismatch between skills and needs. the labor force is not have necessarily be skills

t on the other hand, you do have more moderate forces in iran.nge and i think rouhani, the currene president and zarif, the current foreign minister, represent thak point of view. i think they think that international isolation is not good for iran.d the fo they understand that the economf is being be badly damaged. and so they would like to get economic relief.isol and i think that they are ir willing to put some curbs on the nuclear program in order to get that.y but the important thing to poinn out is thatk the supreme leade is the ultimate decision maker n in the iranian system. and so the supreme leader is -- hearing all these viewpoints and making the final decision. and historically, the supreme leader has been more in the hard line camp than in the moderate camp. me lea and so i think if i try to read the supreme leader, i think what he's trying to do here is have d his cake and eat it too. he would like to have nuclear weapons, or at least as advanceo nuclear program as possible and get the sanctions relief.lear and i think that's probably what iran is trying to achieve in these neg

we did that before the election of rouhani. what damages credibility is our syria policy. basically every times. , we comehe news cycle up with that initiative that looks like were going to do something about the syrian problem and then we don't follow through on it. most obviously the strikes on syria, the proposed strikes last september. the latest example is the president speech at west point where he laid out this $500 million for the syrian opposition. when you start looking into the details you see that it is not getting appropriate until december and the program will not be up and running until .anuary or everywhere he we are talking about two years down the line. burger dressed up as helping the syrian opposition. states andthe united we have enormous resources and power. if we just start doing stuff, people have to listen to us. >> ryan, i think it comes back to the question i want to ask you. when you said it might be too late right now to do much with the syrian opposition, why? this is the united states. we have stepped into iraq. why is it too late, and is tha

allies, and we sprung it on the israelis and the saudi's, and we did that before the election of rouhani, and that damages credibility. what also damage his credibility as our syria policy. getsally, every time syria in the new cycle, we come up with an initiative that looks like we are going to do something about the syria problem, and then we do not follow through on it. the most obvious example being the strikes on syria, the proposed strikes last september. the latest example is the president's speech at west point, where he laid out this $500 million for the syrian opposition, but when you start looking into the details, you see that the $500 million is not going to get appropriated until december, and the program for helping the syrian opposition will not be up and running until january, february, and the worst guys who will be fielded with american training and weapons will be about a year after that, so we are talking about two years down the line. it is a nothing burger dressed up as helping the syrian opposition. policies like that will lose credibility for sure, but we are the