[00:09.33]The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the first such encounter for six years.
[00:17.56]Diplomats from China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany are also there.
[00:22.32]Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani has said he wants to reach a deal on the nuclear dispute in three to six months.
[00:28.64]Nick Bryant is at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
[00:31.97]“Not since 2007 has the U.S. Secretary of State come face-to-face with an Iranian Foreign Minister,
[00:38.40] it’s also the first time that talks have been conducted at such a high level between the two countries on Iran’s nuclear program.
[00:44.92]And the Iranians have said they hope it would jump-start talks which have long been stalled.
[00:49.54]But the America and Britain have both expressed skepticism over Iran's recent overtures,
[00:54.78]John Kerry has indicated that Washington won't make any major concessions unless Iran takes concrete steps to show it’s serious about curbing its nuclear ambitions.”
[01:05.19]The global police organization INTERPOL has issued an international alert for a British woman Samantha Lewthwaite to the request of Kenya.
[01:13.46]Ms. Lewthwaite has been accused of having links to the al-Shabab Militant Movement which is behind the four-day attack on the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi.