i think we can have a listen to sergei lavrov talking about that right now. as to. the agreement based on the. russian president. the six negotiating to recognize. energy including its nuclear enrichment on the conditions that its program. and will let us. you and you were these sanctions against iran that they introduced by the un security council russia has never recognized the unilateral penalties if the easing pressure on the wrong start would lift. now among the details that one mentioned by sergey lavrov is that this will be the six month freeze over iran's nuclear program no new centrifuges are going to be and no new uranium enrichment facilities are going to be built and iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium over five percent now so the deal here has been made it may only be an interim deal for the moment which means that you have to start in six months time but at the moment it feels like a historic breakthrough especially after a night spent in the media center absolutely paula thank you so much for staying up for us and bringing us the very very lates

gary arrived in geneva on saturday morning falling russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and french foreign minister lor aunt bobbie lewis played a german foreign minister ed eagle festive now. british foreign secretary william hague. and chinese foreign minister won e a riot the stakes are expected to hold bilateral meetings with tehran's foreign minister mohamed deposit week before holding a conference together nothing in agreement on what steps should be taken during the first stage of the nuclear deal. they've yet to agree on whether a document of agreement should make it clear that iran is granted the rights to uranium enrichment. another remain difference is whether to stop construction of the month heavy water reactor. heavy water reactors make it easier to extract plutonium which can be used for making a bomb a high ranking iranian government official told nhk that the parties may be in agreement on saturday china's state run media has reported on the first patrol by its air force after giving eating in air defense identification zone in the east china sea the zoning codes t

the presence of mr sergei lavrov in cairo is, again, a first for a number of years. we didn't get specifics today. i don't think we can necessarily say it represents is a shift in foreign policy. the media here expected something big would happen or were referring to the possibility of it. a head line in a newspaper said "the bear is back", another talked about the possibility of mr putin wowing the egyptians with a $2 million aid package. nothing like that happened. there's the possibility that a deal will be announced. it's worth making the point that defence ministers of egypt and russian. are also meeting today. it is possible that a deal may emerge from that. at the moment nothing has come through. i don't think we can say there has been a public shift in policy. >> thanks very much, dominic kane in cairo. >> in syria fighting continues around the capital. pro-assad forces are said to be taking ground from the rebels. these pictures are said to show government tanks as they attempt to seize the district and fighters can be heard overhead. this apparently shows s

now among the details that one mentioned there by sergey lavrov is that this will be the six month freeze over iran's nuclear program no new centrifuges are going to be added and no new uranium enrichment facilities are going to be built and everyone has agreed to stop enriching the rain. five percent now say the deal here has been made it may only be an interim deal for the moment which means that you go shea sions have to start up again in six months time but at the moment it feels like a historic breakthrough. while reaction from inside iran now and we're joined by a professor of cyber hominum ronnie from tehran university thank you for joining us here on r.g.p. to talk about the reaction into ron so do tell us how the country is reacting to this historic deal i mean is there only praise or do you hear criticism as well. obviously there is criticism i mean iran is a very diverse country and we have many political parties and groups but i think that the overwhelming majority of politicians and. political parties and political leaders in this country have come out in support of the negot

now among the details that one mentioned by sergey lavrov is that this will be the six month freeze over iran's nuclear program no new centrifuges are going to be added and no new uranium enrichment facilities are going to be built and everyone has agreed to stop enriching uranium to over five percent now so the deal here has been made it may only be an interim deal for the moment which means that you go sheesh and have to start up again in fixed months time but at the moment it feels like a historic breakthrough. well the deal got an overwhelming support back in iran with the country's spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini welcoming the agreement professor side mohammad marandi from toronto university says that despite what appears to be many concessions iran gains more than its sacrifices the overwhelming majority of politicians and. political parties and political leaders in this country have come out in support of the negotiations and the deal the important thing is that iran is reaching uranium today it is continuing to do research and improving its technological capabilities within t

it details that one mention that by sergey lavrov is that this will be the six month freeze over iran's nuclear program no new centrifuges are going to be added and no new uranium enrichment facilities are going to be built and everyone has agreed to stop enriching uranium over five percent now so the deal here has been made it may only be an interim deal for the moment which means that you have to start again in six months time but at the moment it feels like a historic breakthrough well despite hailing the deal with iran u.s. president obama says the majority of american sanctions against iran will stay employees are going to count as more from washington president obama pledged to put a modest relief of sanctions in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program the relief will include freeing up a small portion of iran's overseas accounts as well as easing some other trade restrictions here's actually what the president said on our side the united states and our friends and allies have agreed to provide iran with modest relief while continuing to apply our toughest sanctions we wi

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and a top chinese diplomat will join saturday. representing iran is foreign minister mohammad javad zarif and he said there's a general outline of an agreement. it's thought an agreement would see iran freeze nuclear activities and sanctions would be eased. our diplomatic editor james bays is at the talks in geneva. yesterday the picture was optimistic. how does it look today? >> it really depend who you listen to at this stage. we have some clues, because we have heard from two of the european foreign ministers in the last couple of hours. speaking a short time ago the british foreign secretary william hague said that the talks were going very well, there was a different atmosphere from previous negotiations with the iranians, but he added that it may not be possible to get a deal on-saturday and it may be they have to come back to geneva at a future date, but said it was possible that maybe they could get a deal. when you look on the other side - you'll have to listen to the french foreign minister, laurent fabius, who gave a ra

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mention, that our relations are deep-rooted in history, today's meeting between myself and minister sergei lavrov addressed a number of international and regional issues. in addition to other issues of bilateral interests. with respect to international and regional issues, we addressed the crisis in syria and the efforts being made and the ground work for the geneva ii con -- conference with only aim to address the peace crisis in syria. and the crisis in the middle east, the israeli-palestine negotiations, and the efforts made by the united states in preparation for their negotiations. i propose and reiterated that it is significantly important to reach a solution to the israeli palestine conflict. i soup revved myp concern of any practices by the israelis on the ground which may disturb the negotiations making a peaceful amenable solution impossible. we also addressed a number of issues, including the neighbouring countries to egypt, namely libya, the sudan. nigs to the situation in africa, and -- in addition to the situation in africa and other areas of mutual interest. we also touched upon is

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that's sergei lavrov. he's joining others who cancelled plans to come here.he next push will wait until he arrives. >> presuming they find a way to proceed on this. we are talking, really, about first steps at best, with a much lengthier and more complex process that will have to follow all of this to reach a final resolution. >> yes, it would only be an interim agreement between the p5 plus one and iran. something that will in some ways limit iran's nuclear program, limit its enrichment of uranium, and at the same time then the you rainiums would get an easing of their sanction, it would be a first step, but be important coming as it does after the election of hassan rouhani, after the phone call that took place in new york during the u.n. general assembly. i think probably if it's an interim agreement probably by the end of the day, if that happens - it's not there yet - we would be calling it historic. >> james bays, our diplomatic editor live in geneva. >>> the talks in geneva are the most recent to take place since the revolution in 1979. president hassa

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov raised hopes of an imminent agreement might join the talks on saturday morning to see allison cost. that optimism has faded. when school is close to downtown correspondent models dennis who is in geneva for us michael's everyone is waiting to see the sun deal comes out of the stokes what is really just your hearing well it's still quite confusing because the some minutes ago but just the two in june and solace to and he told me that well. that is still the possibility that we got them that emit more than just a statement explaining a postponement. all of these talks but from the iranian side i really heard the odds and is more likely to see a postponement of four and i to know the next within the next fourteen days but the reason for that possible postponement is still unknown now i smell a deal is reached at night what would be the next steps. well a new deal about it she would mean doubts the pink skirts on the lower level than the minister and that'll cost to deal again have to prepare the remaining issues to find some common agreements. and

differences after the first round of talks a lot of optimism is shared by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov you are the residual speculations of the positive shift we now see in negotiations over iran's nuclear program has only become possible because of pressure coming from sanctions against it i suggest we leave it to. we as diplomats simply can't afford to be dragged into these meaningless discussions we now have a real chance to sign a solid deal in if we let speculation lead us astray we could lose this chance there are many who will be very upset if the talks collapse once again which of also went on to say that tehran has agreed to two stipulations specified specified by france at those earlier talks that is to stop enriching uranium to twenty percent all together and to limit the amount of uranium enriched to three and a half percent so it does seem that ahead of wednesday's talks there was a real sense of optimism that there could be a breakthrough which could end this decade long standoff let's take a closer look at the terms of a possible nuclear agreement here as paul mentioned

landmark agreement and taunts he is engineered with the russian delegation headed by foreign minister sergei lavrov and took a knock on line two aunties pointed to a cutback i bet twenty five will serve the chances of a deal to be reached at. in a flurry of activity as he said foreign ministers have trumped everything in order to test and former rome declared until this final push for a break for it in the translation is now we are here with the russian delegation pots. the price is really cool cats to arms length because those talks are taking place behind closed doors the cell negotiations to best buy with it in secrecy because of the sensitivity of the keys and say oh we have courts a real sense from the dedications. eighty seven larry. luke's gospel truth instead the news that the full deal he had potential tos how much talent this principle. yet what do we not about the deal that's election day in the making right now. i look forward to this house that we have had reports that one may just be a stumbling block which was you're honest i'd insistence on recognition of its might to ukrainians enr

landmark agreement artie isn't going anywhere with the russian delegation headed by foreign minister sergei lavrov and we can now go live to poorly. that point is so how are the talks progressing that and are there any real chances for a deal. both foreign ministers are locked in talks at the moment security has been beefed up head there at the intercontinental hotel where most of the negotiations are taking place in the center security that we've had to move away from that when i in the media center but these talks are shrouded in secrecy that macquarie situation is taking place behind closed doors and there is a real sense that the delegations are extremely wary of any leaks coming through in the media so certainly there are signs that a breakthrough could be on the cards today one major stumbling block was iran's insistence on its public on public recognition for its right to ukrainian richmond's and that has apparently been overcome in the doing all of the trough to agreement. iran has also reportedly agreed to stop enriching uranium to over five percent and in exchange it would receive a limi

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is expected to take part in talks being held in geneva. still join us secretary of state john kerry use foreign policy chief catherine ashton and iran's foreign minister. the dogs arif the negotiations that went late into friday evening there are signs of progress many obstacles remain. i want to emphasize their skills and very bored. issues on the table and are under assault. it is important for those to be properly bizarrely interest how one emphasize here is not an agreement at this point. but the pea pod is working hard walter williams takes a look back now. the history of the on off negotiations newquay at times like these are the haunted moment decade as tensions between iran and the international community are twelve times suspect tehran is trying to build a new key opponent. iran has long insisted its media program is peaceful path says penny. the program's existence became knowledge in two thousand and two and the next day the government to create the un its media watchdogs can visit its media plazas. the inspectors can confound t

nearly reached last week we've been reporting about it and according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he said that there was no joint proposal but there was a u.s. proposal that everyone including iran agreed on but then there were last minute amendments so the deal did not go through now france is being blamed for stalling and putting in those last minute amendments so we have to wait and see if the world powers will come to a consensus with iran on its disputed nuclear program which of course would ease international sanctions against iran and allow iran to proceed with this nuclear program which is says it's being used for peaceful purposes thanks very much indeed live from new york. well let's get into the prospects for next week's nuclear talks on america's role in its care of porters and store and investigate journalist who's written on u.s. national security policy and he joins me now from washington with john kerry and joe biden please really haven't gain much traction among some congress members what impact do you think a speech will have do you think it would perhaps make su

try the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with his chinese and his in raney and counterparts and we did hear a little bit earlier from the iranian foreign minister zarif that the agreement being discussed today consists of three. stages and he also said that he could assure that that potential agreement would contain public recognition of their bonds right to use rainy and enrichment but we've just been moved by security here that clearly making way for an imminent press conference which should happen shortly so we will find out if that deal has been hammered out to hear the deal what of the specifics remind us. what all the foreign ministers really expressed the same notions going into these negotiations this morning saying that very small bot important differences still remained and that was a number of gaps that needed to be bridged and that was echoed by russia's deputy foreign minister who i spoke to a little bit earlier and he explained to me that one of the crucial sticking points throughout these negotiations has been the iraq heavy water facility in iran which could

reporter and they're progressing that sort of optimism has been echoed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who said that he thinks that they can hammer out a deal here and he's actually joining in these talks shortly but there has been a sense over the past few days that these talks the number of stumbling blocks still remain here it hasn't just been a case of costing the t's and dotting the i's as perhaps many people had hoped and there are sticking points now specifically one of the sticking points is the wording of the draft agreement and iran is said to be insisting that the world powers publicly recognize its right to enrich uranium now that was a major stumbling block the previous negotiations that happened just ten days ago here they fell apart at the eleventh hour. reportedly france was said to have demanded conditions for it to be set out for iran so at the moment the mystery remains will they be able to. overcome this vital stumbling block and get down to the practicalities hammering out the details of this agreement but at the moment it looks like that mystery may not be solved

isn't geneva with the russian delegation headed by foreign minister sergey lavrov and we can now go live to ask. that how they're poorly so what are the chances of a deal to be reached at. well there's been a flurry of activity as you said foreign ministers have dropped everything in order to jet in from around the globe to make this final push for a breakthrough in negotiations now we are here with the russian delegation bought the press is really being kept out on length because these talks are taking place behind closed doors these are negotiations that are. in secrecy because of the sensitivity of the issues so we have a real sense from the delegations that they are clearly very wary of any leaks getting through into the media before a deal here a potential deal is how much doubt and pen is put to paper. pulled out what do we know about the deal that's allegedly making right now. we simply don't know all the details but we have had reports that one major previous stumbling block which was iran insistence on public recognition of its right to enrich uranium enrichment has been overcom

chemistry between them is good and we've had similar note of optimism from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the same time we know that a number of stumbling blocks remain here at these talks it's become apparent over the past two days iran has been willing to commit to allow inspectors from the international atomic agency into the country they've agreed to a vast swathes of the conditions set out for them by the e.u. and the u.s. but there seem to be getting much in return for that we know that the u.s. and the e.u. aren't offering to ease sanctions particularly significant me or indeed immediately if a deal is struck the way things stand at the moment sanctions would only be east slightly and off to six months so iran's wanting to see a bit of leeway on that said to be they want to see an easing of some of the very severe sanctions against that oil trade and their banking sector moreover at the moment we're talking about potentially hammering out a deal about easing sanctions but over in the us we've got hardliners in congress talking about piling on even more sanctions on iran when as we'

i like is when you think will come out of the talks with sergei lavrov there tomorrow what development without praying what id. i don't think the odds of those tolls will be some extent because of difficult negotiations are happening now. on a doomed suspect that used only to come to be on the photo when they are celebrating the agreement. well he's certainly well the markets tennis thank you for joining us ran us from geneva. i readily turn out to a storm that is said to have wind speeds faster than her teens standing and katrina combined super storm heidi on has been battering down on the philippines with at least four people killed and power lines knocked out in several provinces telecommunication lines down officials haven't been able to assess the full extent of the damage. but that the storm swept through quickly and officials hope that might have spared the country from a major disaster. rescue crews arrived just in time to the scene and after the abandoned their part of the online poll the typhoon heidi on more into the central philippines early in the morning. flooding roads c

control sergey lavrov also said the negotiations these sanctions regime will be under the deal iran will hold to development of its nuclear program for six months during this time iran will regain access to assets worth as much as four billion dollars of hail the impact of the election of president hassan rouhani as paving the way to the talks also all the enriched uranium will reportedly remain in iran and won't be exported we'll bring you more on this and around thirty minutes from now stay with us. we. are the key to the play you call it the musical. use that no one is there with the game that you deserve answers from. place right close to. you and i think that your. reporters. would be in the. place. of economic ups and downs in the final. belonged to the old and the rest of the. case you will be if we take. the leap. you don't have. to think about. this. one. three. for. by what i know about seven people a good man got to buy the guy says so yeah it is like a run to my fam but that's the close of my brothers and know about ten people who have died. both of my brightest and care ever

there's been a flurry of activity since russia's sergey lavrov jetted into geneva he's already met with his iranian counterpart now despite this a number of sticking points still remain here that it's still going to be hammered out if this deal is going to be made now we know that iran's foreign minister has already said that unless the world's power is publicly recognize iran's right to you radium in richmond he's not signing a deal here and we know that coming into these negotiations iran has already made a number of concessions according to reports they've already agreed to stop enriching uranium to over five percent and they've also spoken about not using advanced centrifuges anymore but what are they getting in return well the u.s. and the e.u. have agreed to a limited relief on economic sanctions against iran that's if they ever get to hammering out that deal so there's still a lot of positions that need to be reconciled and we're talking about potentially hammering out a deal over going to be easing sanctions against iran at the same time over in the u.s. we've got a hard line is

landmark agreement with lottie's in geneva with the russian delegation headed by the foreign minister sergei lavrov we can all join us. live to get the latest on this so good to see you polly how are the talks progressing any progress being made and honestly of people still optimistic about some sort of good outcome here. well john king. harry and william hague are expected to join the foreign ministers head that have already gathered in geneva and certainly a sense that a deal is imminent we've had security beefed up around the intercontinental hotel that's just behind me yesterday we were reporting from right outside of it today we've had to be pushed back out of the corner of my eye i can see several policemen and there's a real sense of heightened tension around here and security and as you said we are here with the russian delegation normally that affords you extra access an extra information but these talks have been shrouded this time around in a must say of degree kristie the negotiations taking place behind closed doors and . are extremely wary of any leaks coming through into the media be

a lot of talks still taking place we know that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has jetted in . geneva there is talk of john kerry flying into more it also joining the talks catherine ashton the top diplomat talking about a positive atmosphere so a lot of people still hoping that a deal could still be done as the talks progressed into the night and through to the morning as well live in geneva thanks very much indeed for that update. the mayor of the israeli city of nazareth elite was recently voted back into power on a promise to keep the city jewish and limit the growth of the population and this in a diverse electorate of jews christians and arabs. reports he's refusing to back down . what my goal is to have as few arabs as possible blunt direct and a virtually racist shit from a shop or ninety five percent of mayors think the same but only five percent will say to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does so by have to stay true to what i believe should one capsule has never shied away from controversy the mayor of nazareth elite is known for building neighborhoods

and according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he said that there was no joint proposal but there was a u.s. proposal that everyone including iran agreed on but then there were last minute amendments so the deal did not go through now france is being blamed for stalling and putting in those last minute amendments so we have to wait and see if the world powers. a consensus with iran on its disputed nuclear program which of course would ease international sanctions against iran and allow iran to proceed with this nuclear program which it says is being used for peaceful purposes made a point that will early historian investigative journalist gareth porter told me about the roots of the friction between the white house and capitol hill over iraq i don't think the president's statement or speech at this point is going to hold off the members of congress who are determined to go ahead with this move but the question is whether they will be able to muster a majority in the senate i think the house is more likely to be responsive to israel's urgings on this and most likely to go ahe

chemistry between them is good and we've had similar note of optimism from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov he's going to be joining these talks shortly but at the same time we know that a number of stumbling blocks remain here these talks it's become apparent over the past two days now one significant issue is the fact that iran is said to be insisting that its right to enrich uranium is publicly recognized in the agreement by the world powers but that's not the only problem we know that these last negotiations that just wrapped up here over ten days ago they folded at the eleventh hour people were ready to put pen to paper everyone seemed to be happy with the times of the deal that had been hammered out but at the last minute fronts reportedly insisted on much tougher conditions to be set out for the arraign ians and that is wards both sides and the iranians are said to be grappling with now we know that one major bone of contention is the iraq heavy water reactor which france has been insisting can't go into operation and we're also aware that iran has been willing to commit to allow wea

a moment well the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that the agreement recognizes iran's right to a peaceful nuclear program but it would be undistracted conditions of inspections from the i.a.e.a. e a now it would involve a six month freeze of iran's nuclear program which would include the fact that no centrifuges are to be added no new rainy i'm in which meant facilities are going to be built and iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium to use the five percent that crucially the construction of the iraqi head the warship facility which could potentially produce weapons grade plutonium that's in the agreement iran has agreed to hold so that is no longer a bone of contention that was one of the issues that was holding up these talks and really getting them into very intense stages now that is going to take place in exchange for a limited easing of economic sanctions for six months but a deal here in geneva has been made it may for the moment be merely an interim deal said negotiate negotiations are going to have to pick up again in six months time but there's a feeling o