he as well as the chinese foreign minister have been gone since last tuesday. lavrov emerged as one of the major obstacles. in the intervening days he sided with iran russia putin as well siding with iran against the u.s. on the whole issue of the sale of ballistic missiles and other conventional weapons. that was the first division we've seen publicly in the partners at the talks, the so-called p5 plus 1, the five members of the u.n. security council plus germany and also a very important player here is the european union, so as we saw last night they went until ten after 12:00 right after midnight, still meeting here and then john kerry after going to church today came back here the french foreign minister fabius is here. everyone is waiting for the russian to come and gather and look over what was agreed to