the biden administration is talking of giving up on the current diplomatic track. my guest is an adviser to iran s negotiators in vienna, mohammad marandi. if a nuclear deal can t be done, how real is the danger of a catastrophic war in the middle east? mohammad marandi in vienna, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. now, you are in the austrian capital with the iranian negotiating team, us negotiators are there too, but it does look as though efforts to revive the international deal on your country s nuclear programme are running out of road. why is that? the americans are dragging theirfeet, and so are the europeans. they left the deal. from the very beginning, they violated the deal, then they left and tore up the deal. they imposed maximum pressure sanctions on citizens in iran, killing people intentionally and that s basically waging war by other means. and now the iranians want the sanctions removed, and in orderfor
and, how zara rutherford became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. hello and thanks forjoining us: the united states has, with the backing of its european allies, warned russia that if any of the tens of thousands of its soldiers massed at the ukrainian border invade there will be grave consequences. the us secretary of state antony blinken and his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov are scheduled to have crucial talks in geneva, later on thursday but moscow denies planning to invade ukraine. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. it is notjust the russians who are conducting military exercises. these are pictures released by ukraine s defence ministry, showing their forces training close to crimea. it was annexed by russia in 2014 and the kind of incursion that ukraine and its allies are trying to deter once again. i have been absolutely clear with president putin, there is no misunderstanding, if any assembled russian units move across the uk
some of them, not very many but some have been more visible in the last few days but things are very, very tough indeed for downing street and there have been so many big jawdropping moments this week starting at the beginning. we finally saw borisjohnson emerge from his self imposed isolation. boris johnson emerge from his self-imposed isolation.- self-imposed isolation. what happened self-imposed isolation. what happened was self-imposed isolation. what happened was a self-imposed isolation. what happened was a member - self-imposed isolation. what happened was a member of i self imposed isolation. what happened was a member of his family tested positive for covid and he was following the government advice incredibly strictly which is to limit your social contact, which means for him he could limit his contact with the media while dealing with the media while dealing with this big unfolding story. but then along comes an encounter with sky news, where one of us on beh
now on bbc news, a special edition of our series life at 50 degrees. when i was growing up, my grandmother used to tell me that we lived here forever. there s this collective conscious knowledge that is handed down from generation to generation. what you do to the land, you do to yourselves. that is how i was raised. but since a child i have seen changes in ecosystems, i ve seen less water, i ve seen the trees struggling with drought and heat anxiety. if you abuse the land, climate change is a logical consequence. and this weekend, temperature records could be shattered across the province. a new all time record i of 49.5 degrees celsius. the hot spot of course in lytton, british columbia. holy bleep. my daughter is asking every- day, the town s burnt, mom? it is all you re left. with, just memories. let s make some noise for fairy creek! we have fires all around the world destroying unprecedented amounts. all we want to do is protect the old growth. we, as humanity, are de