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Visit. >> right. >> last week, saying that she will not be coming in october because of edward snowdens disclosures about spying on brazil. and she then gave a speech preceding the presidents speech and laid it out for the whole world to see. this is part of what she said to say. >> translator: meddling in such a manner in the life and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and as such it is an affrontment to the principles that should otherwise govern relations among countr...

Gunfire and explosions? >> reporter: well, the president just made a speech to the nation, andrea, as you know, and hes tried to leave no doubt that this incident, as he put it, is now behind us, quote unquote. he said that there were 240 casualties. that 61 civilians lost their lives. that six security officers were killed, five terrorists were killed, as he put it. 11 are in custody. he did not explicitly say what had happened to the, quote unquote, hostages. we were led to believe as of yeste...

So the time is now ripe for the entire international community to get behind the pursuit of peace. >> hand signals. now all eyes are on irans president, rouhani, before his first speech to the u.n. this afternoon and that potential meet and greet on the sidelines with president obama. not over yet. gunfire, loud explosions heard again just a few hours ago as the violent hostage crisis at a shopping mall in kenya entered its fourth day. this as new claims that at least two americans were part o...

Are legacy moments potentially. >> well, they are. it is interesting we were looking at all four previous general assembly speeches and each one of them has different ways that hes had to deal with iran, but iran has been a focal point in some form or another in all of these speeches, again today. but what he did with kerry, you identified this. i mean thats the news of the speech. basically green lighted, you know, p-5 -- he didnt clearly say p-5 plus one was no longer the place to go. >> thats...

Agreement potentially. >> andrea, i think you got it right. as usual youre the place to be but yes, the rowhani speech, you know, the politics of diplomacy and the handshake or not handshake or accidental on purpose meeting, it shows you how fraugt these things diplomatic can be and often are. as you mentioned earlier rowhani not at that luncheon honoring ban ki-moon. you know, nothing huge is going to be solved here but i would for my purposes at least and i defer to you, the lavrov kerry meeti...

Respect. >> does irans new president rouhani have the political power to negotiate an end to his countrys suspected nuclear program? that is the challenge for the u.s. and its closest ally. its closest ally is great britain. william hague now joins me here in our studio. secretary, thank you very much for being with us. >> good afternoon. its a great pleasure. >> well, you are front and center. youve met with your iranian counterpart in the last day. >> yes. >> so youve had the first window into...

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