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Welcome to your Wednesday edition of CNNSTUDENT NEWS.

I'm Carl Azuz.

Peaceful purposes or nuclear weapons?

For years, that's been the debate over Iran's controversial nuclear program.

Now, the discussion is happening face to face.

Representatives from Iran, the U.S., the U.K., Russia, China, France and Germany startedmeeting yesterday in the Swiss city of Geneva.

They are talking about that nuclear program.

Iran says it's serious about resolving disputes over the program.

Representatives for the other country say Iran needs to address the concerns about the goalsof the program.

In the past, Iran has been put undersanctions because of its nuclear program.

Sanctions are restrictions, usually economic ones.

The goal is to force the country to take action like changing a policy or starting to negotiatewith other nations.

Some officials and analysts think Iran is offering to talk about its nuclear program in order toget those sanctions lifted.

One of them is Israel's prime minister.

He says Iran regularly deceives the international community, so he doesn't think the sanctionsshould be relaxed too soon.

Authorities in the Philippines are trying to get an idea of how bad the damage is.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the central part of the country Tuesdaymorning.

Dozens of people were killed, most of them when buildings fell and dozens of others weremissing as of last night.

A worker with the charity World Vision said people were staying in the streets in the hours afterthe quake because as you can see from these pictures, some of the buildings that were stillstanding, were very unsafe to be around.

The Philippines is a nation of more than 7,000 islands.

Earthquakes are common there.

The country's disaster council said this one damaged ports, roads, schools, churches andhomes and some landslides were also reported.

Moving back over to Washington D.C., were the debate over the partial government shutdownand debt ceiling is getting more intense than ever.

Yesterday, a group of military veterans held a rally in the nation's capital.

They urged the president and Congress to end the shutdown, before its impact hits veteransand their families.

At the Capitol, there were reports of proposals from the Republican-led House, and theDemocratic-led Senate.

CNN reporters were told there are a lot of opinions, but no decisions.

All while the clock kept ticking toward Thursday's debt ceiling deadline.

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