off the ball here? i think first of all the world has, the world is now preoccupied with ukraine and it seems nothing else matters but i think historically over the last 20 years the world has taken its eyes off the ball and allowed iran to systematically lie, essentially, and systematically walk right to the edge of what is legal and only admit to their activities when they were found out. find when they were found out. and so in your when they were found out. and so in your view, when they were found out. and so in your view, how close is iran to developing a fully fledged nuclear weapon? i am not an expert fledged nuclear weapon? i am not an expert but fledged nuclear weapon? i am not an expert but the - fledged nuclear weapon? i n not an expert but the experts are trust and talk to, for example a professor at stanford, who knows much about iran s nuclear programme thinks everyone is a few months away.
operations. i admire those people deeply. i worry also about russians who have fled. friends of mine who are stuck in countries all over the world that decided they couldn t live in putin s russia anymore. what happens to them and their children in the future. and finally, i m inspired by renewal. obviously it was easter, at least in my faith, on sunday. this is a time of renewal. one of the mts, a fellow at stanford, she spent a year at my institute. she went back to ukraine and became a member of parliament. she s been on many of our programs lately. she was stuck here because she was pregnant. she couldn t fly back and she just had her baby and she said one more brave ukrainian little girl into this world and so all of those things conflicting are the way i live my life 24 hours a day, nicolle. thanks for asking. you made me cry.
mhatve s grandmother, elena, tells me they had a good life before the war with a home of their own. then shelling forced them to flee. we left our house and jobs she says, and we moved. now she fears that may happen again. nearby, another indelible mark left by war. a mural of a little girl orphaned in 2015, her mother died shielding herfrom shelling. 0rla guerin, bbc news. let s speak to steven pifer a former us ambassador to ukraine, and is currently williamj perry research fellow at stanford s center for international security and cooperation.
invasion. they were tweaking the language last night to avoid that. and being criticized on television, mike mcfaul, a good friend of this white house who has had experience with people in the previous administration saying is this invasion. i taught this, as did mcfaul. i teach this at stanford. when you go into a country uninvited, a sovereign country with your military, this is an invasion. and it was. i think what they saw overnight, the intelligence and movement that courtney has been describing as well as the way vladimir putin described it today which was to expand on the separatist areas to enlarge those borders it clearly is an invasion. i don t think that i got to the original question that there s a meeting with lavrov this week. they will hold that off. but they don t think it would do anything but create another propaganda platform for lavrov who is not that close to putin. he s the foreign minister, he