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Visit. >> right. >> last week, saying that she will not be coming in october because of edward snowden's disclosures about spying on brazil. and she then gave a speech preceding the president's 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 countries, especially among friendly nations. >> so that really was a slap at the united states and she ...

Gunfire and explosions? >> reporter: well, the president just made a speech to the nation, andrea, as you know, and he's 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 yesterday that there were still ten people being held by the gunmen. he didn't elaborate or didn't expla...

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 iran's 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 of the terror group that stormed the mall on saturday, killing at least 60 people. kenya's president...

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 he's 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 that's the news of the speech. basically green lighted, you know, p-5 -- he didn't clearly say p-5 plus one was no longer the place to go. >> that's the permanent members of the security council plus germany. >> right. that it was a negotiation...

Agreement potentially. >> andrea, i think you got it right. as usual you're 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 meeting may have the most lasting impact here, which is, where do we go? obviously we averted a huge sho...