[ti:Israeli PM says Iran Nuclear Talks are a Very Bad Deal]
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[00:00.00]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
[00:04.27]spoke to United States lawmakers Tuesday.
[00:07.78]He told Congress that the negotiations
[00:11.37]between the U.S. and Iran would "guarantee"
[00:15.52]that Iran would get nuclear weapons.
[00:18.53]He called that a threat to the Middle East
[00:21.86]and the rest of the world.
[00:24.18]Mr. Netanyahu added that Iran's government was,
[00:28.83]in his words, "as radical as ever."
[00:32.19]He said it could not be trusted.
[00:35.42]He said the deal being worked out with the United States
[00:39.45]would not block Iran's way to a bomb.
[00:43.41]He said it instead, "paves its way to a bomb."
[00:48.74]Republican politicians invited Mr. Netanyahu to address Congress.
[00:55.33]U.S. President Barack Obama did not support the visit
[00:59.91]because of the closeness to Israeli elections.
[01:03.26]Nearly 60 Democratic members of Congress
[01:07.17]stayed away from the event.
[01:09.64]President Obama did not attend the event, either.
[01:13.67]He was at the White House taking part
[01:16.55]in a video conference with European leaders.
[01:19.88]They discussed Ukraine and other security issues.
[01:24.73]U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
[01:28.41]and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif
[01:33.47]are meeting for a second day in Switzerland
[01:36.75]to discuss Iran's nuclear program.
[01:40.18]Mr. Kerry and Mr. Zarif met for two hours
[01:44.42]Tuesday morning in the Swiss city of Montreux.
[01:48.40]Iran and the five members of the UN Security Council
[01:52.83]and Germany, the so-called P5 + 1,
[01:56.99]are working to reach a final agreement
[01:59.92]on Iran's nuclear program by March 31.
[02:04.49]The Security Council is seeking
[02:06.19]to limit Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities
[02:10.03]and its resources for developing nuclear weapons.
[02:14.68]Iran, which says its nuclear program is peaceful,
[02:18.72]is seeking an easing of international sanctions.
[02:22.97]Thousands of mourners honored
[02:26.90]Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov Tuesday.
[02:30.78]The politician was buried after being shot to death
[02:34.82]in Moscow Friday night.
[02:37.18]Also Tuesday, the European Union strongly condemned Russia
[02:42.25]for barring Polish and Latvian officials
[02:45.91]from entering Russia to attend Mr. Nemtsov's funeral.
[02:50.57]The Russian government also barred
[02:53.30]several opposition leaders from the funeral.
[02:56.84]Mr. Nemtsov was a former deputy prime minister.
[03:01.40]Gunmen shot him in the back four times
[03:04.85]as he was walking across a bridge with his girlfriend.
[03:09.08]Russian President Putin has promised
[03:12.81]a full investigation into the murder.
[03:15.07]Many activists say Mr. Nemtsov was targeted
[03:19.88]because of his criticism of Mr. Putin's government.
[03:24.38]North Korea's foreign minister warned Tuesday
[03:28.81]against the U.S.-South Korea military training that began this week.
[03:34.66]The official said the exercises
[03:37.62]could lead to war in the Korean peninsula.
[03:41.59]The foreign minister spoke in Geneva,
[03:44.71]where he was attending the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament.
[03:49.53]On Monday, North Korea fired two missiles into the sea
[03:54.36]to protest the exercises.
[03:57.44]The training started on Monday and will continue through April.
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