designed to show the iranians, look, we re making an effort but we need to see on your side that you re approaching the talks in a serious way. it can t only be that we offer you something. we have to see, what are you prepared to do? are you prepared, for example, to actually limit 20% enrichment that you ve been engaging in? is are you prepared to ship out of the country that enrichment, one of the other moves made by the five plus one was to allow them to retain a small percentage of that for use in a medical research reactor. the five plus one i think are waiting now to see is iran going to come to these talks and say anything serious? this would be a meeting that might move to begin to signal that something is happening. if they come and prepare to make a move of their own, if they come and all they have done is pocket the moves made in the last meeting, i think this is going to suggest that the whole approach the 5 plus 1 is taking
despite ongoing concerns from the united nations. engineers from iran and russia loading fuel into the country s first nuclear power plant. with iran still insisting it only has interest in energy production. and the russians saying, they ll make sure the facility is not used to make weapons. fox s caroline shively has the latest developments from washington. so, caroline, the big question of the day is, why should we believe that iran, when they say that this plant isn t being used to make weapons? well, for one thing, kelly the international atommic energy agency is there and watching them when they bring in the fuel rods and don t divert them to use for a bomb. a capability question. you need to enrich more than 90% for a nuclear weapon. this new plan is set to 3 1/2% and iran has a pilot program that enriches it to 20% for a medical research reactor. take a listen to one iranian official. we had said this over and over, that we are not
situation room. what is going on, lao eis a? well, more evidence that the top taliban leader is dead. pakistan s state run tv said that mehsud had died in a drone attack, however a taliban spokesman insist hd ewas alive and in hiding. iranian officials say they have started to make much higher grade uranium fuel under supervision. this brings them closer to having nuclear weapons. iran insists that the sbejs ints are peaceful. they are making a big jump in purity, but they say it is to fuel a medical research reactor. the u.n. has passed three rounds of sanctions against iran for failing to halt enrichment. and one of the biggest
u.n. s watchdog group it will only be used to make fuel for tehran s medical research reactor and the move prompting calls for more sanctions from western nations, that called on iran to stop its uranium enrichment and ship it abroad instead. iran also announced it will start building ten new nuclear fuel plan this year. al qaeda, al qaeda s leader in yemen is calling for a tax against u.s. interest, sayeed al-shari is the second in command in the arabian peninsula and a form detainee released from guantanamo bay and a message released on the internet urges muslims to attack and eliminate americans and embrace jihad and this u.s. is cooperating with yemen s stepped-up campaign against the terrorist group. fire officials say five people are still unaccounted for after a huge explosion at a power plant in connecticut. the deadly blast rocked the town
saying the world must step up pressure on tehran. the point of the pressure is to bring the iranians back to the negotiating table, and to resolve the issue in a way that prevents iran from having nuclear weapons. martha: president mahmoud ahmadinejad still insisting that this enrichment is also for peaceful purposes. amy kellogg has spent time inside iran, knows it well and joins us now live from london. amy? reporter: martha, it is well-known that iran does need 20% enriched uranium for the research center in tehran but the a renowned, respected nonproliferation expert told me while iran will be able to enrich it 20%, it won t have the technology to actually package the fuel into the rods needed for the medical research reactor. so this is just another reason a lot of people have further suspicions about the true nature