Secretary of state john kerry said that he and other Foreign Ministers will work through the night to resolve tricky issues blocking the agreement. The diplomatic editor james bays reports from switzerland saying there is cautious optimism going into the final hours of the talks. The talks here in their last difficult leg. Is it going well, secretary certificate kerry . Were working hard. Theyre trying to hammer out a deal with iran counter part. Theyve been joined by Foreign Ministers of the socalled p5 1 countries, china, u. K. France, germany and russia. It was an important meeting but it shows there is no deal to be signed yet. Sergei lavrov, who arrived in lausanne 4 hours earlier decided to leave again. He may be back close to the deadline on tuesday. The break of negotiations in the middle of the day with Chinese Foreign minister went for a jog along lake gentlemen geneva. Later he told reporters positions are narrowing. Im cautiously optimistic we can reach a deal. Its just a m
58 . In Eastern Ukraine where theyre likely uncomfortable with what happened in kiev, how the government left and how that crimea is a bigger shock and may have the unintended consequence, perhaps of helping the country unite. And the last point, they have to be very careful how they handle nato. I think i hear what mike is saying and i guess i would just disagree. My guess is that over the next ten years youre not going to see ukraine seriously consider joining nato, and i say this as somebody in 2008 who testified to congress that ukraine was ready. They checked all the boxes but in the last five years i would reassess that. Even when you had a pronato government, the Popular Support never got above 28 , and nato is never going to seriously consider a country for membership when you bring in a country where the population is not comfortable with that and its difficult for me to see that changing. So on the one sense the russians ought to be assured theres in the a realistic prospect
Determined ability. The court will decide if the cutoff is so rigid its unconstitutional vote. In 2002 the Supreme Court ruled that executing those who are quote mentally is quote cruel and unusual punishment. The court decided at that time to leave it to the states to determine the criteria for meeting the standard. This is an hour. We will have argument this morning in case 12, paul versus florida. Mr. Waxman. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. In atkins versus virginia this court held that the constitution bars executing persons with mental retardation. That is persons with significantly sub average intellectual function concurrent with deficits in Adaptive Behavior with an onset before the age of 18. Because of the standard error of measurement that is inherent in the iq test it is universally accepted that worsens with obtained scores of 71 to 75 can and often do have mental retardation when those three prongs are met. The statistical error of measurement or saddam is.
To leave it to the states to determine the criteria for meeting the standard. This is an hour. We will have argument this morning in case 12, paul versus florida. Mr. Waxman. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. In atkins versus virginia this court held that the constitution bars executing persons with mental retardation. That is persons with significantly sub average intellectual function concurrent with deficits in Adaptive Behavior with an onset before the age of 18. Because of the standard error of measurement that is inherent in the iq test it is universally accepted that worsens with obtained scores of 71 to 75 can and often do have mental retardation when those three prongs are met. The statistical error of measurement or saddam is. A line has to be drawn somewhere. And we did say in atkins that we would leave it up to the states to determine the standards for this issue. So what is the rule being announced today . Are we saying that 70 is not okay and that 75 wood the