Going to increase or enhance security, but our vulnerability, provided working reasons. Anyway, the us thought all was not going to help them achieve their objective. The number two issue of sanctions. Those were negotiated. Important. That impact of the economy. But they have not made us desperate. I was having a dinner with a colleague, and she asked me, can you take me to a place where i can see the impact of sanctions . I told her, if you ask picked meexpect me to take you to store the shelves are empty, such a place does not exist. But you are talking now with the much more Nuclear Capable iran. Secondgeneration, 10,000 and 1,000 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium. So that was not attracted to anyone. But two factors facilitated. Number one, the momentum. No one can plan to create the momentum. It just happens. It is not a planned phenomenon. Both the administration here, they use the momentum which happened because of these actions. In his campaign he said, you know, the li
Purpose. Bunker buster bombs, im not sure how that contributes to that. An arms race, thats hard to measure. Im not sure the provision of military hardware contributes to the arms race. There are tons of scholarship about that, we will not get into that. If, with your permission it is only fair that i respond very briefly to these assertions that nasser made earlier that i quite respect. T is just useful to provide a counter argument to it. It is important for the debate here and over there as well. I think the central theme of what he is saying is that iran is misunderstood and if only be better understood it, it would be primarily defensive posture in the region things could be so much better. Fair enough we have a lot of misperceptions about that country. Some are failing. It is quite a notoriously opaque system over there. It is becoming increasingly easier to read through the long negotiations between the United States and iran. We know much better about iran today but there is st
Abc seven on air and online as we follow the story. Will pass along updates as soon as we get them. A home destroyed and a family and morning after a deadly fire in charles county. It started just before 12 30 this morning on poplar road in waldorf. A 68 euros and her sixyearold grandson killed in that fire a 68yearold and her sixyearold grandson were killed in that fire. This is a tragic story. A family of six inside their home this morning when fire erupted. It killed two people including a small child before firefighters had a chance to arrive. Aboutrst 911 call came in 12 30 this morning but disconnected seconds after it began. She was screaming that someone was inside in the phone disconnected. Reporter 55 firefighters raced to the scene. We knew right then, we heard her screaming on the phone. It was an emergency. Reporter flames ripped apart the p the prefabricated style home. Four people made it out alive but a 68yearold woman and a sixyearold boy never had a chance. This morni
It in decline. A essential report from beirut. More than two years after the tsunami in japan, debris is still washing up on beaches thousands of kilometers away. Thousands of people are still waiting for help to arrive after a powerful earthquake hit pakistans remote southwest on tuesday. The quake has affected an area the size of switzerland. The latest death toll is now at 348. The quake flattened large areas of the district thats the countrys poorest province. Judo is the only International News channel with a team in the worst affected area. Our correspondent reports. Reporter three days after a major earthquake flattened entire villages in some districts, we have seen widespread destruction in anarwan. This is an impov riched district where people are still digging and theyre not digging for gold or valuables, butter but theyre looking for the missing, their loved ones unaccounted for. The women here have nowhere to goment. There is no shade from the sweltering sun. Soon it will
Quite surprised. The next election is shaping up to be a very interesting event, with various factions involved. There may be opportunities to change the nature of that relationship. Its probably not going to happen. Its certainly not going to happen unless we can successfully address the first reversing the Iranian Nuclear program to a point where they are more distant from gaining Nuclear Weapons capability, and can we have confidence that they will stay at that distance. Thank you, jim. Let me ask tom. You made an interesting statement. You said, its time for the negotiating process. What makes you think that the iranians are . What do you think will move them . They have shown themselves willing to move from a process that had one inconsequential meeting per year, with the rest of the year devoted to negotiating about the next week, to of four meetings before the elections, and now two following. We do not and should not expect miraculous moves to rapid agreement. Over a period of