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but today, this weekend, israeli president shimon peres took a softer stance, saying he would be willing to meet with the new president of iran and said the ultimate goal for everyone is peace. >> it's what we can all hope for. thank you for the latest. >> jamie, at that forum in washington, the president put the chances of success of this deal only at 50/50, but he did say it would give the u.s. and other western leaders greater negotiating power over iran in the long run. >> it's important for us to test that proposition in the next six months, understanding while they're talking, they're not secretly improving their position or changing circumstances on the ground inside of iran. and if at the end of six months it turns out that we can't make a deal, we're no worse off, and in fact, we have greater leverage with the international community to continue to apply sanctions and even strengthen them. >> is that true? we will the deal work and stop a possible iranian nuclear bomb, or will it eventually fall apart. john bolton, senior fellow at the international enterprise joins us as he doe

expressed his deepest sympathies to the families of the victims that while the president of israel shimon peres says his heart is with the victims of the latest her if it acts and james corbet at the independent news website is the colbert report says there's a certain irony about this sorrow being expressed. the current secretary general of nato anders fogh rasmussen has just taken to twitter to give his condolences to the people of russia on this tragedy. being a particularly sad irony because of course many of the chechen rebels have been harbored through e.u. political asylum in european nations and in nato countries themselves including france and poland and britain where of course one of the former chechen rebel leaders oxman zacky of has been residing for a number of years now of course the islamic radicals are the ones that tend to carry out these attacks but the ones that are directing funding fostering and training them tend to be elsewhere located elsewhere and of course we have for example the testimony of former f.b.i. whistle blower civil admins talking about operation gladio b r

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ki-moon expressed his deepest sympathies to the families of russia while the president of israel shimon peres said his heart is with the victims of the latest a horrific acts and he spoke about the international sympathy with. who's ever century in russian affairs for the british east and west center and he called terrorism the chiro of the world which should be hailed by working together . we've got lots of successes we keep hearing from m i five in the u.k. we're doing really well and in russia we're actually thinking well there are lots of success at this point these can. take a bent to keep happening i mean there are those who believe that they have sympathy because they see. independents moving secessionist movement. is just warm but sadly it's caught on their sleeves and there isn't a lot of cynthy anymore the recent events and willage recent even nine eleven and already been. bombings on our underground following the announcement of the olympic wind and increasingly they're always going to be a minority who will see that there's some sort of justification there is so some sort of reaso

. >> when they were standing in front of the white house, he turned to shimon peres, and said, you gohake his hand. >> but he believed in the strength of the israeli defense force. everybody understands the security interest is understandable and significant. in the middle east, you are in the middle of a number of countries that are hostile or a number of organized groups like hezbollah and hamas, and iran. >> two factors have changed since 1995. number one, rockets. they didn't use rockets in those days. and if i address that for a second, the number one threat in the event of a pullout is over the ridge where they ca shoot rockets at the airport. all they need to do is shoot two rockets a day into the airport. israel comes to a screeching halt. and the second thing that has changed is terrorism now has a different face than it did then. then, it was stones. now they blow up school buses. that is what they do. these two facts, if they exist ed in 1995 him a believe me, rabin's position would have been rabin is the one who said not to give back the jordan valley. >> i am not sure net

so, but it was very nice when people like clinton or shimon peres or kissinger -- >> host: david cameron? >> guest: david cameron. it's very nice when people who are working with jerusalem, involved this the peace process, involved this israel and the middle east, when people like that read the book and sort of appreciate it. i mean, especially bill clinton and kissinger, obviously, because both of them are american statesmen who have been deeply involved this the peace process. >> host: are either of them friends of yours? >> guest: no. they've just read the books, and, i mean, kissinger had also read my stalin books and was, you know, had liked them. so it's just lovely when people like that get in, you know, like your work. it's a dream come true. of. >> host: this is booktv on c-span2. we are in london, and currently we are talking with author and historian simon sebag montefiore. we've been talking about his most recent nonfiction book, "jerusalem: the biography." but you did mention your writings on russia, and you've mentioned your family. what influence does your family have on y

now, we understand it's going to be before july when israeli president shimon peres is scheduled to step down, but we're hearing from the middle east from sources in jordan and the palestinian territories that this visit may well take place at the end of may. and i've covered previous papal visits to the middle east by both john paul ii as well as benedict xvith. even though pope francis certainly is a mold breaker, he may have to tread carefully in the middle east because that's one area where everybody who's watching, everybody is analyzing your every move. so here at the vatican, certainly he is shaking things up. hard to say if he's got the appetite to shake up things in the middle east. >> ben, were there any discussions, any further discussions about iran and the most recent deals made with iran? >> if there were, we don't know the details. this was a closed meeting. they spoke through a translator. so we don't particularly know. we do know that this pope certainly is more actively engaged in the affairs of the vatican from the most minor to sort of the grand affairs of state. now,