rouhani was elected and they had a new foreign minister. were any conversations with the previous-- >> no. >> rose: none. >> no. therefore, it's a major shift. after the election, i received the ambassador of iran, and the new minister, mr. zarif, called me saying, "well, there has not been a relationship before" and we had an interesting conversation on the phone. it was about syria. i said, "you know we are against chemical weapons because we have suffered with chemical weapons coming from the iraqis, and, therefore, we are against the chemical weapons, and we want to that everybody will abide by the international law." and i said, "mr. minister, i'm very happy to high pressure from you. we want that everyone will abide by international law, and especially in the nuclear field. then there was a silence. and then he said okay. and, you know, this sort of story which enabled us to know who is in front of us. >> rose: where do you stand and has your opinion changedly on the question of iran being a participant in negotiations about syria? >>

rouhani was elected and they had a new foreign minister. were any conversations with e previous-- >> no. >> rose: none. >> no. therefore, it's a major shift. after the election, i received the ambassador of iran, and the new minister, mr. zarif, called me saying, "well, there has not been a relationship before" and we had an interesting conversation on the phone. it was about syria. i said, "you know we are against chemical weapons because we have suffered with chemical weapons coming from the iraqis, and, therefore, we are against the chemical weapons, and we want to that everybody will abide by the international law." and i said, "mr. minister, i'm very happy to high pressure from you. we want that everyone will abide by international law, and especially in the nuclear field. then there was a silence. and then he said okay. and, you know, this sort of story which enabled us to know who is in front of us. >> rose: where do you stand and has your opinion changedly on the question of iran being a participant in negotiations about syria? >> w

rouhani was elected and they had a new foreign minister. were any conversations with the previous-- >> no. >> rose: none. >> no. therefore, it's a major shift. after the election, i received the ambassador of iran, and the new minister, mr. zarif, called me saying, "well, there has not been a relationship before" and we had an intesting conversation on the phone. it was about syria. i said, "you know we are against chemical weapons because we have suffered with chemical weapons coming from the iraqis, and, therefore, we are against the chemical weapons, and we want to that everybody will abide by the international law." and i said, "mr. minister, i'm very happy to high pressure from you. we want that everyone will abide by international law, and especially in the nuclear field. then there was a silence. and then he said okay. and, you know, this sort of story which enabled us to know who is in front of us. >> rose: where do you stand and has your opinion changedly on the question of iran being a participant in negotiations about syria? >> w

tonight, a conversation with the new president of iran, hassan rouhani. >> the president said he gives you respect and recognition of iran's right to have mostful nuclear energy. that seems to be an answer to your concerns. >> well, the nuclear issue has turned into an issue of national pride. and a symbol of the perseverance of our the people. and i want to say that the people really have never demanded anything beyond what the law designates. nothing over and above what is rightfully their. therefore the nuclear issue has become a symbol of development of sorts in iran. the modern know-how required to go hand in happened with this technology is a symbol for the iranian people. hand in hand we must move forward to ensure that the international is enforce and once we are abide by that i think everything's settled. >> rose: we talked with manuel barossa. >> because the economic situation seems to improve there's the risk of complacency. there's the risk of some governments say okay, we don't need to go on with reform, that's serious complacency. complacency nationally, we don't need to

changepresident rouhani the western view of his country at the u n general assembly? and the business implications. one of the world's fastest- growing economies. >> recent oil and gas discoveries are expected to help kenya's economy grow by six percent this year. recent horrible images like this could have a major impact on all of that, and in particular on kenya's hugely important tourism industry. >> it is midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in the nairobi, where the siege of the westgate shopping center is apparently not yet over. security officials say they are in full control, sweeping through the building to eliminate the last of the militants. they also say they have killed six and arrested several more. we can get the very latest because for us outside the shopping mall is john several. >> hello, and welcome to nairobi. there has been no official government announcement, but we have spoken to a senior police source who said that the building now is under their control and ineffective the siege is over. but there are conflicting accounts and it

president rouhani said other countries should join the nonproliferation treaty. there are several countries not in the n.p.t. including israel, india, pakistan. iran is in the non-proliferation treaty and so it has to abide by the non-proliferation treaty before it can give lectures to anybody else. >> rose: other issues. you've raised human rights with him? >> yes, i welcomed when i met him the release of some political prisoners. this is the one respect in which iran has gone beyond the change of tone. they've released some and so we welcome it and it would be churlish not do so. there are other political prisoners, of course, and many restrictions on freedom of expression and many abuses of human rights in iran. so that situation hasn't changed over night and been transformed but we should welcome that progress. >> rose: and with respect to syria what did they say? >> well, syria, iran, really, that the headline from iran is they don't want the use of chemical weapons and, indeed, iran is in the country that's been on the receiving end of chemical weapons in r

president rouhani said other countries should join the nonproliferation treaty. there are several countries not in the n.p.t. including israel, india, pakistan. iran is in the non-proliferation treaty and so it has to abide by the non-proliferation treaty before it can give lectures to anybody else. >> rose: other issues. you've raised human rights with him? >> yes, i welcomed when i met him theelease of some political prisoners. this is the one respect in which iran has gone beyond the change of tone. they've released some and so we welcome it and it would be churlish not do so. there are other political prisoners, of course, and many restrictions on freedom of expression and many abuses of human rights in iran. so that situation hasn't changed over night and been transformed but we should welcome that progress. >> rose: and with respect to syria what did they say? >> well, syria, iran, really, that the headline from iran is they don't want the use of chemical weapons and, indeed, iran is in the country that's been on the receiving end of chemical weapons in rec

. >> rose: so what do you make of what rouhani is saying when he has an interview with ann curry of nbc and he says we don't do not want nuclear capability, we would never do that. what what's your response when you see here him say that? >> i'm -- i prefer to be skeptical. >> rose: well, that's the responsibility of leadership to be kept cal. >> i'm skeptical but i will be happy to be -- >> rose: but do you think it's a possibility that perhaps -- >> you can never say that something is -- it's not physically impossible but it's very clear that what they have done until now is developing that you don't need these experiments, you don't need more than 10,000 centrifuges, you don't need such amounts of medium enriched uranium. >> rose: they built more capacity than they will ever need for peaceful use. >> not just that. the experiments with -- that's something you don't need for anything. but that developed a kind of you don't need it for x-ray, you don't need it for anything else but in order produce nuclear weapons. they already have the plans how to develop not two devices the that di

. >> rose: and they issued a warning to rouhani saying don't go too far. >> yeah, and suleimani is definitely of that milieu but he, he deals with, he looks outward so in a way he doesn't, for example, as far as i could tell, he's not involved in discussions about the nuclear program, about elections, that kind of stuff. he's basically focused on iran and what it does abroad. but they are as i discovered, they are incredibly aggressive. i mean they are everywhere. so every kind of stone that he i picked up, about events in the past, whether it was, you know, getting the americans out of iraq. making sure that there were no u.s. troops there. whether it was killing americans in iraq whether it was the her iri assassination. >> rose: he was hine the what requirei assassination. >> the evidence suggests that the iranian played a pretty key role in killing hariri the billionaire prime minister. that is what the evidence shows. sow was, he was every wrm. he really was. >> rose: so he acted at the behest of the assad regime in killing >> it aer pass. the evidence is overwhelming that assad and hezb

. >> rose: and they issued a warning to rouhani saying don't go too far. >> yeah, and suleimani is definitely of that milieu but he, he deals with, he looks outward so in a way he doesn't, for example, as far as i could tell, he's not involved in discussions about the nuclear program, about elections, that kind of stuff. he's basically focused on iran and what it does abroad. but they are as i discovered, they are incredibly aggressive. i mean they are everywhere. so every kind of stone that he i picked up, about events in the past, whether it was, you know, getting the americans out of iraq. making sure that there were no u.s. troops there. whether it was killing americans in iraq whether it was the her iri assassination. >> rose: he was hine the what requirei assassination. >> the evidence suggests that the irian played a pretty key role in killing hariri the billionaire prime minister. that is what the evidence shows. sow was, he was every wrm. he really was. >> rose: so he acted at the behest of the assad regime in killing hariri. >> it aer pass. the evidence is overwhelming that assad an

. >> rose: and they issued a warning to rouhani saying don't go too far. >> yeah, and suleimani is definitely of that milieu but he, he deals with, he looks outward so in a way he doesn't, for example, as far as i could tell, he's not involved in discussions about the nuclear program, about elections, that kind of stuff. he's basically focused on iran and what it does abroad. but they are as i discovered, they are incredibly aggressive. i mean they are everywhere. so every kind of stone that he i picked up, about events in the past, whether it was, you know, getting the americans out of iraq. making sure that there were no u.s. troops there. whether it was killing americans in iraq whether it was the her iri assassination. >> rose: he was hine the what requirei assassination. >> the evidence suggests that the iranian played a pretty key role in killing hariri the billionaire prime minister. that is what the evidence shows. sow was, he was every wrm. he really was. >> rose: so he acted at the behest of the assad regime in killing hariri. >> it aer pass. the evidence is overwhelming that assad

. >> rose: and they issued a warning to rouhani saying don't go too far. >> yeah, and suleimani is definitely of that milieu but he, he deals with he looks outward so in a way he doesn't, for example, as far as i could tell he's not involved in discussions about the nuclear program about elections that kind of stuff. he's basically focused on iran and what it does abroad. but they are as i discovered they are incredibly aggressive. i mean they are everywhere. so every kind of stone that he i picked up, about events in the past, whether it was you know getting the americans out of iraq. making sure that there were no u.s. troops there. whether it was killing americans in iraq whether it was the her iri assassination. >> rose: he was hine the what requirei assassination. >> the evidence suggests that the iranian played a pretty key role in killing hariri the billionaire prime minister. that is what the evidence shows. sow was he was every wrm. he really was. >> rose: so he acted at the behest of the assad regime in killing hariri. >> it aer pass. the evidence is overwhelming that assad and hezb