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Its unclear if any production infrastructure was damaged in the take over. A major storm system has caused chaos in western states. Eight deaths have been blamed on the storm winter storm warnings are i in effect for parts of california through today. Those are the headlines im Johnathan Betz with more on the historic dei deal in geneva. But first consider this is up next. You can always go online to aljazeera. Com. The knockout the game spreads fear across after around the country. Teens are cold cocking strangers and its turned deadly four times. Consider this how wide spread is the problem and what is the best way to stop it . We will take you to a place that has been increasingly struck by kids playing the deadly game. Have you ever asked yourself if you can beat your child in a race at their their age. The mobile individual yo game candy crush is pulling in millions of dollars a week. Our candy crush and games like it built to hook you like a drug. Im antonio mo. Mora. We are bringing you the knockout game. They tend to knock people out with one punch while another records it. There have been at least 18 recent attacks and four deaths attributed to it in the past two years. The crime has spread across america as videos have gone viral. Janette looks at the terrifying new trend. Watch as the gangs of teens approach this 50yearold Pittsburgh School teacher. Sucker punched and out cold. And another 00er i 00 here in n. The game could turn deadly when the victims head smashes into the could b concrete. That has happened ottawa twin year. One teen explains the idea behind the game. Knockout is a game that a lot of teenagers play where they dare one. Guys to randomly what doe choose walking down the street. Some say its random but others say there is more of a pattern of how offenders target their victim. It happens to be a jew in each and every case. They are he roo purge t referrit happened in this jewish neighborhood. It was right on this block that the 12yearold hebrew student was attacked on november 13th. They have the hate Crime Task Force looking into the attacks to determine if they were hate crimes. One reason some are not reporting the crimes the teens dont steal from the victims they simply walk away. Are they going to take someones money or cell phone . No they are going to nap you out. What is the point . For the fun of it. To run around and hit people and knock them out. They think its funny. They think its funny. They think its amusing. What is a joke to some is costing others their lives. For more im joined by dr. Boyce watt continues wattwa. And thank you both for coming on the show. Dr. Watkins i want to start with you. There are reports that attacks like these have been around for a decade or more. But we are certainly seeing more attacks recently or hearing more about them. What do you think is happening. Well i mean, i think teenagers naturally have be a inclination to engage in some degree to social defensivians. Defensive defensivians. Defensive g i think what you really are seeing is a society where our kids are desensitized to violence. They grow up playing grand theft auto and you are doing the knockout game but with ak 47s and attacking random citizens. Thits a lot to be alarmed abou. We dont know how many attacks have occurred. Some victims dont report the attacks because there is no robbery involved and in some cases they dont know what happened. We have some numbers across the kung. Country 7 in new york city and one in denver and one in syracuse and two in st. Louis and one in chicago who died and we have another one in san diego. Dr. Gardier new york seems to be the e ep ep b epi center. I know you have a friend that was attacked. It was a fellow physician and she was walking down the street and she was surrounded by a group of young men and one of them swung on her and she avoided the punch and she studied karate and was able to stay on her feet. And what she said to them was hey what you ar are you what y . Where are your parents . Go home. Who is taking care of you . As a physician she recognized these were young men had no purpose and no academic goals and had nothing to lose and knowing they could kill someone or injury them in a very gross way they just didnt care. And i believe these are youngsters who dont care about life and dont care about themselves. Dont care about the consequences that they may end up going to jail or killing someone. That is big issue. And that friend probably has the fear instilled in her. Im glad she was okay and not knocked out or worse. Yes with the pub list ti pube you concerned about the fear is instilled by people walking down the street. We were talking about it in our editoeditorial that you are loog over your shoulder more. Black youth are not stigmatized by this. There is already a fear of black men. And now these individuals have done bad things, lets be straight about that. I dont want it turning into a race situation because we know many jews have been attacked in brooklyn and now they have to look over their shoulders and be afraid of any young black male that approaches them. This is a real problem. I do want to address race in a moment. The videos are Popular Online and they hav they are getting hf hits. And when you find them you discover kids laughing about it. You punch someone and they go to sleep when you hit them. For the fun of it. Little kids run around and hit people and knocking them out. Even though they shouldnt be doing it they are doing it. Dr. Wat watkins what went wr. Itits chilling to hear them tk about it like its a silly glam. One thing we have to learn about society is desens desensitized g people. You have kids growing up playing video games that are incredibly violent. Like grand theft auto. It does fee sens desensitize kio violence and they look like real people. We have a whole generation of young people who have been ignored by our society we dont invote in education or preschool or after Cool School Programs and the identif idol me devils workshop. And we have so many million of kids who have grown up with out struck fu fur instructure in th. Do you see them as sociopathses and not understanding the contesconsequences of their act. Lets be clear. Teens have a certain tendency that leads to social deviation. When i was a teen i did things that i wouldnt do today. I am sure p ther there are manye that would agree to that. There was a Wildlife Reserve where they put a bunch of adolescent elephants on the reserve and there were no adults elephants around. The adolescent elephants were doing things unnatural like randomly killing rye no rye rhi. When had mentors they wouldnt do that. When you listen to teens when they talk about the knockout game. They say we wanted to test if we can do the one hitter quitter and we wanted to see if we could knock a person out with one punch. They have no mentors to slow them down and say you could pay for this all of your life. I looked at the most popular trends. Knockout is the 10th most popularrer isch. Popularrepopular search. Its getting a lot of attention on social media. This is spreading across the country. The latest incident has been in san diego on tuesday. How big of a role has this played from the spread of this vicious game and does the Media Attention make it worse . I think what we are looking at is the idea of contagien. When you have youngsters that dont have mentorship or academic goals they are going to be open to venting their anger and hitting these peel i peopley to get back at society. They feel they have nothing. They are at the bottom of the totem pole. They figure this is the way to immortality and away to make a statement. And people are giving them positive reinforcement antonio o by watching these videos and its the wrong kind of reinforcement and they are getting high on the violence. Until this week none of the networks had touched this story and the argument is that people dont want to touch it because its young black males. What is your reaction to that. We need to cover this story and wh what is going on. We are not glorifing it. You are talking about what is the h ediology. And i hope that young people that are watching this realize that what they are doing is not just self destructive but its murderous and their parents need to step in. I think dr. Watkins needs to to agree with this. Step in and po pa pat rolle patn children and teach them that its murderous. What do you say to the criticism that africanamerican leaders have not stepped up and talked about this. You are arguing about the importance of mentors and of parents being there. What about africanamerican leaders speaking out. I like to argue that you have two africanamerican leaders right here. Good point and we are glad to have you both. I would say when you talk about black leadership one of the things i strongly believe there is that black leadership starts in your livingroom and that starts with the parents. We also have to look at as a society what are we doing with the parents. I can give you an idea of a family in chicago that was well disciplined and there was a drug dealer in the family nonviolent and so they sold dru drugs theye the far 140 years in prison and they locked up his mother and brother. They grew up with out parents and as a result they grew up with out guidance. We have millions of households where there are no parents there to do anything. We have a responsibility to address this issue in a holistic way and not point out and say bad plaqu black kids its not go get us anywhere. Its not just black children. Its going to go to poor white children. Its not so much about the race but socia socioeconomics. Lets hope that by you speaking out the attention stops it instead of encourages it. Consider this will be right pack. Back. Power of the people until we restore ten heavily armed pakistani men staged assaults in mumbai. Launching three days of terror that horrified the nation and the world. Now a book raises a litany of questions that were not fully answered. Who directed the attack and and why. What was the roll of the agent. And why was it stow so painfully throw. The taj hotel was the most iconic in was in mumbai. What made these attacks so horrible and different in a way. They went after eight different sites and attacked people at all of these different places is that one of the unusual things about the attack . That is one of the most unusual. We call that a swarm attack. The idea that a swarm team can give a larger foot print and make it look like an army invaded the city. You have ten men armed with machine guns and small amount of explosives and a few remote detonated charges. But the appearance is of an army affecting the city. The second thing that is amazing is that they are controlled by a control room. And the control room has a bank of tvs and they have google earth and cnn and bbc and al jazeera and local tv khabibulin. Anand so this makes it something quite new. Its incredible that ten men were able to do as much as these men g did despite having the controllers in pakistan watching the news reports and guiding the guys from a distance with the new technology. Its amazing they were able to do that. Is it a huge failure on the part of the Indian Government . I think it was a big surprise. There were warnings that were passed over to the agencies before hand. It was attacking a blues busiy t in mu mumbai and total surprised total inpreparedness by the authorities. They were given warnings by the cia and other in tel intelle agencies other than the cia. Given those warnings there may have been intentional disregard of those warnings. I put it down to systemic failure and not a conspiracy. There has been a tendency to allow certain events unfold in order to demonstrate the enemy outside but i dont think this is one of those. I think what you have here is something more slightly depressing really, which is a mounting drum beat. A drum beating louder and louder pointing to specific targets that were going to be attacked. Ten guys and a suicide squad and a inability to develop that and pass the intelligence down. And part of the reason, i think the americans never shared one crucial piece of information which is what the origin of the intelligence was. An american double agent. A american citizen that was playing both sides. He infiltrated the ge jihad grop that launched the attacks. He was sentenced to prison in the United States. What went wrong. You saw that. This was a privileged guy and his dad was a broadcaster and his mother was a well to do woman. When you look back at his life one extraordinary factor david hedley served david hedley. His mother was from maryland and his father was a renowned broadcaster. And every stage of his privileged life he betrayed the friends nearest to him. He eventually was a drug dealer and sold out to work for the dea and a collaboration with the authorities. And near the time when Al Qaeda Rose its head he offered somethinsomething new to the Intelligence Community he said what if i get you inside of the movement. Then he ended up flipping. He was working both sides. But in this case he ended up working welcome to Al Jazeera America we are going to update update yn the breaking news in geneva. A Historic Deal has been reached over Irans Nuclear program. It comes after a marathon that went all day and into the night in geneva that is after days and weeks of what negotiation of what to do with Irans Nuclear program. Phil is standing by live. What can you tell us about this agreement. Well, johnathan, we are getting snipets from what this agreement is. We dont have the actual text yet. Once we do we will go through it with a fine tooth comb. What we are getting at this point is sources within various delegations that are saying that there will be an eleav an alea g sanctions. The question is whether iran has a right to a Nuclear Program. That language will not be in the agreement. From the ey iranian side there s an indication that perhaps there is. That may just be di diplomatic speak and as we kind of expected they may blur the lines on that. We are definitely hearing that there will be sanction relief on the iranian economy. And that is, of course, what brought them to the table in the first place. That is why they came in earnest to these current talks. There has been in the last few months apparently a tweet from the secretary of state that today the world is now a safer playing, there is certainly an air of relief here in agai gene. Johnathan. This is the wee hours of the morning as you mentioned. They may have been working all night. These people are exhausted but they are certainly elated. When we look at the video from within where we expect the signing ceremony to be held, of the body language, obviously, of exhaustion mixed with joy, mixed with relief. The smiles on the faces there. Obviously a sense within the diplomatic core here on all fronts that they have really achieved something significant this evening and now into this morning here in switzerland, johnathan. As we said earlier its a historic break through. And we are waiting to hear from president obama any minute now from the white house to speak about this moment and this agreement. Phil, if you can, kind of put this into per spe perspective w. We are talking about a 35 year icy relation between iran and the United States. This is the first sign of some thaw happening. How significant is this right now . Hugely significant, john. You have to understand, there has been such an icy relationship between tehran and washington over three decades. This first step toward some sort of improved relationship would have been unthinkable. Just six or nine months ago. John we are getting what appears to be yes it appears to be a delegation arriving here at the press conference center. There will be a series of press conferences around geneva in the early hours of the morning. I know we are waiting for the president of the United States. But it looks as if, he yes, thas the secretary of state john kerry. Secretary of state, your mood this morning . Your mood this morning, sir . Its early. So there the secretary of state arriving with the under secretary of state wrendy Wendy Sherman. She has been on the ground doing the preliminary work before the secretary of state that arrived. There were the big boys and the foreign secretary and the secretary of state before they came in on this round, there were a awful lot of people hacking away at this before they showed up. A real sense of really hard work having been done here in geneva. Secretary of state kerry has gone into the presto press confe area. We can expect a press conference any moment now. I doubt he will conflict with the president of the united un d states. A lot of photoops in quick succession. Its great to see the secretary there. You mentioned the hard work that has been accomplished, phil. But still a lot of hard work ahead. Its important to point out that this is really a deal to hopefully eventually make a deal. This only temporarily lifts the sanctions. They are looking for a wider ranging deal six months down the line . Yeah its been stressed time and time again. This is not the end result. This does not resolve the issue around Irans Nuclear program. Its the first step and the fell temporary step. Its time for both sides to test the waters. Its by no mean a per permanent deal. Will be an aleve yates six months from now there will be a a review on how this has gone and well take it from there. This agreement is historic. Its a first step of many and a first step that has not happened in a very long time. It comes with a lot of controversy, phil. Israel has been outspoken about this me tensiona potential agred saudi arabia as well. There are countries out there that are not happy with the sanctions being lifted without a promise from iran that they will dismantle their nuclear arms program. Sure, obviously there are folks on all sides here that are going to be going through this very carefully and go into it with a lot of skepticism the israelis are deeply concerned about the draft proposal that was out there. And they will be taking a very close look at that. They said that what ever is signed they will not adhere to it necessarily. And also its important to stress that there are the hardliners on capitol hill who have grave concerns about this. Not the lif least at which harry reid says he will press on further sanctions on iran in the near future. Ththe delegation that arrived here said they were deeply concerned about that idea. Pushing iran too hard and putting more sanctions on them may poison the well and make things worse not better. There will of course be reaction to this Historic Deal. There will be reaction in tehran. A lot of people in iran will be very happy to have some relief from the harsh sanctions. And there are those that are very antiamerican and very hard line. They may very well see this as capitulation. But the mood here or the desire here was to start a the process and fog and chill the mistruss that has been between iran and the wester western powers for sy long. Of course it will have to be seen how effective this really is. Here is the iranian delegation arriving. So we can anticipate in i have short order what appears to be a joint press conference between the iranian delegation or with the iranian delegation and the american delegation. Johnathan could we aplowe applat that a year ago. Five years ago the American Government was not even in direct contact with iran. And now potentially we are looking at the secretary of state standing on the staining wit stagewith the iranian fon minister talking about a joint deal. This by any stretch of the imagination is a historic moment. Whether its seen as a positive historic moment or negative it depends on what side of the fence you come down on. Of course well have to wait and see. But what a moment. That is it stunning to think about, phil, especially considering as you mentioned a year ago, before this most recent election the hostility between the two countries was stunning. We are looking at a video of the Iranian Foreign minister. He is sitting down and checking his phone and making sure that he has all of the messages he needs for the moment. As phil has been menkin mentionl night long. The United States and iran have been at odd for 35 years now. Tonight in geneva as we approach sunday morning there a Historic Deal over Irans Nuclear program that will lift several sanctions from that country. And a promise from iran that theyll at least freeze their Nuclear Program. They are hoping that a longer term deal that can be reached that will hopefully dismantle Irans Nuclear ambitions when it comes to weapons. The country is close to achieving a war head its been enriching uranium. Lets listen in to irans foreign minister. [speaking a foreign language] today the United States together with our close allies and partners took an important First Step Towards a comprehensive solution that addresses o your concerns with the islamic Nuclear Program. Since i took office i made clear to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. I said many times my strong preference was to resolve this peacefully and we extended the hand of dip lo diplomacy. For many years i ran has refused to work with the International Community. We imposed unprecedented sanctions on the iranian government. These sanctions have had a substantial impact on the iranian economy and with the election of a new iranian president this year an opening for diplomacy emerged. I spokespersonly with the president earlier this fall. Secretary kerry has met multiple times with irans foreign minister. And we have pursued intensive diplomacy. Bilaterally with the iranians ba and together with the p 1 partners. France germany and china and the european union. Today that diplom diplomacy opea new path toward a word tha worls more secure. A path where we can verify that irans peaceful and cannot build a nuclear weapon. Todays announcement is just a first step it achieves a great deal. For the first time in a decade we have halted the process of the iranian Nuclear Program and keep parts of the program will be rolled back. Iran has committed to halting certain levels of enrichment and neutralizing part of its stock piles. They cannot use the next generation of centrifuges. They cannot install or start up new centrifuges. And production of centrifuges will be limited and they cannot continue work and it will provide access to th to the to r facilities and allow the world to verify they are not building a nuclear weapon. Simply put they cut off irans most likely paths to a bomb. Meanwhile this first step will create time and space over the First Six Months for more negotiations to fully address the comprehensive concerns about the iranian program. Because of this agreement iran cannot use negotiations as a cover for its program. On our side the United States and our friends and allies have agreed to provide iran with nottest reliemodest relief. Well continue to provide new sanctions and allow the iranian government a portion of the revenue they have been denied from the sanctions. The broader architecture will remain in place and well continue to enforce them ambiguously. If iran does not meet the commitment well turn off the relief and ratchet up the pressure over the next six mondaymonths well work to negoa comprehensive solution. Iran like any nation should be able to access Peaceful Nuclear energy. But because of its record of violating its obligations iran must accept strict lim limitatis on its Nuclear Program but make it impossible to develop a nuclear ben. Weapon. In these negotiations nothing will be agreed to unless everything is agreed to. The burden is on iran to prove to the world that its new cheer program will be exclusively for peaceful purposes. If iran seizes this opportunity they will enjoy the benefit of the International Community. This will provide iran with a dignified path with a new beginning to a wider world with mutual respect. If iran refuses they will face growing pressure and isolation. In the past few years the United States has beegoing forward we will continue to work closely with congress. However, now is not the time to move forme forward on new sanct. It will alien eight whate usr al please. Allies. That International Immunity is on display today. The world is united in our support of determination to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran must no that the prosperity will not come from the pursuit of Nuclear Weapons. It will come from the negotiations that make the pursuit of Nuclear Weapons impossible. As we go forward wel we will rn firm. Israel and the Gulf Partners have a good reason to be skeptical. Only diplomacy can bring back a doable solution. As president and commander and chief i will do what is necessary to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. I have a profound opportunity to resolve this peacefully. Today we have an opportunity to achieve a comprehensive peaceful settlementment. I believe we must test it. Today marks the most significant and tangible pr progress that we have made since i have taken office. And in the months ahead we will work on the issue that has challenged us for decades. With strong and princpled diplomacy the United States will do its part on behalf of a world of Greater Peace and security and Cooperation Among nations. Thank you very much. There we have president obama speaking from the white house tonight on on this historic eveg here with iran and the six world powers reaching an agreement. President obama saying this is a promising first step. And that the burden is on iran to prove to the world that its Nuclear Program will be used for peaceful purposes. Its important to point that out. This does not mean that a final deal has been struck with iran. A promises first ze step with te hope that in six months a longer deal can be reached. Lets go to Mike Viqueira our washington cors correspondent. Mike, your thoughts on the president s speech. The president is under criticism here not just from the republicans but from democrats as well who are threatening to move forward with further sanctions. They do not trust iran in the United States senate or elsewhere in congress and that is widespread among both parties. And some of the staunchest allies of the United States and israels president is one of them. And he is very outspoken in his criticism on what is on the table. There is u hi unanimity betweenp 1 who have been negotiating with iran over the Nuclear Program for some months now. It did not come without some division. France had called what was on the table a suckers deal. Iran was getting away with the ability to enrich uranium it seems that the interim nature of this deal, the six month deal where iran will give up its ability or foresake or foreswear their ability to enrich uranium further or plutonium. And there is the heavy water reactor in iran this is contentious. There are a number of issues here. The president was potentially saying that iran has decided to approach the west with its opening of the new president. And the president has said time and time again and he reiterated this evening he has the responsibility to persue a dip lodiplomatic solution to the problem. Leaving on the table all day long if iran does prove unwilling or if this is a ruse to buy more time for this Nuclear Program which iran says its for military purpose. The president leaves on the able to military action. If you can stand by for us for a moment. We want to go back to geneva live to the press conference there. Irans foreign minister is still speaking. Something we have gon gone through in the past several years has been for the rest of the International Community to accept the fact that iran was implementing this right and to refrain from imposing restrictions on iran and imposing penaltiese penalties or only having exercised what we believe and a large majority of the International Community believe bait based on the lettef our rights. We need respect for that right. Members need to refrain from imposing sanctions on iran. And we believe the plan of action in two distin distinct ps has a clear reference that iranian Enrichment Program will continue and will be a part of any agreement now and in the future. Thank you very much. If you are ready you can ask him. Okay. War get warner fromargaret warn. Mr. President , congratulations. When it comes to the administration to they have a fact sheet on the deal. And it does not mention the right to enrich. If you look at the particular article it says not depriving the state of the right of production and development. It never mentions the word enriched. Im wondering if its implicit or explicit. It does not talk about 23450u clear reactors or surgery actors osurge reactorsit talks about tt of Nuclear Energy for a peaceful purpose as an alienable right. Its there why you recognize it or not iran enjoys that right and its important to have respect for that right and the respect for that the enrain. Program continues and many times very explicitly in the text that this recognition is that iran will have an Enrichment Program. We believe that to be our right and we are exciting this right and we only require respect for that right. The last question. Its been a hard few days. I just wanted to ask you a question. This and a huge step towards reconcilliation not just with the u. S. United states but with the region. How do you feel about reactions that may come from saudi arabia and from israel who have already criticized this agreement . Well, this agreement is fearegeared towards resolving a problem that has had its shadow cast over the entire world and over our region. So i do not see any, any justification whatsoever to be concerned about resolution or a problem. Now i just wrote an opinion piece i tea defining our approao our region. We believe that our immediate region, the Persian Gulf Region is our priority. That priority will be maintained and that i explained to our neighbors. While we are trying to move forward with the rest of the International Community, our neighborhood will always remain our priority and we will do our best in order to maintain the security of this region. Because the security of region, the security of our neighbors is our security. Thank you again, and thank you all very much for coming and i wish you well, go and have some sleep. [applause] thank you very much. There is irans foreign minister speaking after he mentioned a very long night. Its approaching dawn there in geneva after negotiations went on throughout the day and well into sunday morning. He made a very important point a couple of moments ago about the Enrichment Program. Its been a key Sticking Point over whether iran has the right to enrich uranium. Iranian foreign minister making it very clear right then that they believe they still have that right. Its implied and its a part of this agreement and will be a part of future agreements. A lot of people will disagree with that. Its not explicitly written in the agreement. At this point the two sides will probably afre agree to disagreen that. As part of the deal iran mr. Seek sanctions relief for gold and Petro Chemicals and irans auto sector there. The relief could be worth 1. 5 billion but its likely to add up to 7 billion. The deal halts progress on Irans Nuclear program and including the reactor. And that is according to a senior u. S. Official. Irans program is frozen. It cannot build any new sent trinecentrifuges and iran will t any enrichment above 5 . That is important because as its enriched further it is closer to building a nuclear bomb. Iran will not us centrifuges and inspectors will be allowed in to make sure that iran is abiding by these terms and that will be carried out by United Nations watchdog. Phil has been watching this as its been breaking this evening. Phil talk about the fact that iran is insisting that its right to enrich u rai uranium is allowed in this agreement where that may not be exactly clear. Its a very interesting way of deal with that issue, johnathan. Whawhat it appears they have done is not put it in the actual agreement any mention of a right. But apparently there is worlding referring to the nonproliferation treaty. Which iran is a signaturor to. And within that there is the rights of iran to continue on its Nuclear Program. Its interesting on how they dealt with this. We expected something of that nature to dodge that bullet by not addressing the elephant in the room. That is what seal seems to have happened. This does not contradict what we heard president obama saying he said certain levels of enrichment. When you get higher in enrich manenrichment you get closer toa weaponsgrade. These are not mutually exclusive statements. Its been very interesting to see this develop. We have heard this kind of language from the delegations before. We heard a senior members of the delegation here in geneva saying, look, certain levels of enrichment are fine. 20 we are not comfortable with, and certainly not higher. Its been interesting to hear the way that that particular issue also been dodged. Its also interesting to hear that certainly they are ceasing construction at that very controversial heavy Water Nuclear plant in iraq in the Islamic Republic of iran. That was a contentious issue whether or not that will satisfy the hawks who are deeply concern that the b biproducts that come from that plant plutonium in particular whether or not the gestation of this six month period will be accepted or condemned by those hawks and the hardliners well have to wait and see. That is a huge issue to have been dealt with as well. There is just an awful lot here that we are going through in this agreement. And its particularly interesting to note also, johnathan, that while we have been watching the Iranian Foreign minister and the president of the United States we have seen other figure any dignitaries come in. The British Foreign secretary has arrived here. There is an awful lot of heavy hitters in the building this evening or morning. This obviously is an agreement which has been hard won and these diplomats are now making the rounds and having now to prone thipresent this to the wod their own constituencies. Johnathan. Its been months in the making. Phil thank you for that perpective. We are going to take a break and back with the Historic Deal that was reached with iran in again. Well be back in a couple of moments. And especially lady kath thinyashton who is not only a gd friend but a persistent and dogged negotiat negotiator who n at this to are a very long time. And im greatful for her stewardship and if i could take a moment i would like to thank the team from the United States. There have been a great many people involved in this effort for a long period of time now, both here in switzerland with us now and also back in the United States. They know who they are. I will single out our under secretary of state Wendy Sherman who has been a dogged unbelievebly patient hand and skillful hand. And she has helped through long andaand arduous months and yeare stewardship of our part of this in the negotiat negotiation. And im appreciative of her efforts and her team. At the United Nations General Assembly president obama asked me and our team to work with our partners in order to persue a negotiated settlement or solution with respect to the international communities. Concerns about Irans Nuclear program. Last month the p 5 plus one entered into a more excel acceld negotiation after a number of years of meetings in various parts of the world and efforts to engage iran in serious negotiations. The purpose of this is very simple to acquire iran to move the peacefu peace prove the l nature of its Nuclear Program and ensure it cannot acquire a nuclear weapon. And the reason for this is very clear. The United Nations Security Council found that they were not in compliance with mpt or other i eaa or other standard. Standards and activities like a secret mull multisentrmull centrifuge raised many questions and which were why ultimately sanctions were put in place. Today we are taking a serious step in answering those important questions that have been raised through the United Nations Security Council, the ieaea. And by individual countries we are taking those steps with an agreement that imfeed impedes te progress in a very dramatic way of irans princple enrich the facilities and parts of its programs. Secretary of state john kerry speaking in geneva early sunday morning on this historic day as a deal has been reached over Irans Nuclear program that will temporarily reduce restrictions and relieve sanctions. And now, a techknow minute. A puignd now, a techknow minute. A. Historic agreement. And we thank the foreign minister for those efforts. Together now we need to set about the critical task of proving to the world what iran has said many times that its program is, in fact peaceful