BBC news with Julie Candler.
High-level talks on Iran’s nuclear program are taking place at the United Nations in New York. 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. Diplomats from China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany are also there. Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani has said he wants to reach a deal on the nuclear dispute in three to six months. Nick Bryant is at the United Nations headquarters in New York. “Not since 2007 has the U.S. Secretary of State come face-to-face with an Iranian Foreign Minister, 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. And the Iranians have said they hope it would jump-start talks which have long been stalled. But the America and Britain have both expressed skepticism over Iran's recent overtures, 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.”
The global police organization INTERPOL has issued an international alert for a British woman Samantha Lewthwaite to the request of Kenya. 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. Although there has been media speculation that she was involved in the attack, INTERPOL makes no mention of it. Here's Frank Gardner. “She was originally wanted just simply for possessing a forge South African passport but now the Kenya has announced she is wanted in connection with possession of explosives in an alleged what dating back to December, 2011, so nearly two years ago. These don't date from the Westgate Shopping Mall attack, but she is a suspect unofficially in that ,there have been unconfirmed reports that people have seen her there, either way she is a fugitive from justice in Kenya and they want to bring her for questioning.”