humanity. this is some of the best driving i've ever done, even though i can't see. techknow. we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. welcome to al jazerra america, i am stephanie sy. here are the stories we are following for you. secretary of defense chuck hagel is grilled by angry lawmakers on the bergdahl prison swap plus. >> this is a miles an hour cell from god that this happened. >> a huge political up i upset. house majority leader eric cantor loses his primary bid to a tea party candidate. the ramifications could be far-reaching. iraqi tanks move out of mo .

another city falls today. and cabbies choking the streets of london angry over competition from an app. ♪ ♪ defense secretary chuck hagel is on the hot seat. testifying this morning at the first public hearing on p.o.w. bowe bergdahl's release. the house armed services committee wants to know when and why the decision to swap bergdahl for five taliban detainees was made and why congress was not made. hagel began the hearing defending the administration. >> i would never sign any document or make any agreement, agree to any decision that i did not feel was in the best interest of this country. nor would the president of the united states.

>> lisa stark is live in washington for us. lisa, good morning. what have we learned so far at the hearing? i know it's going on right now. >> reporter: it is, stephanie. well, a very forceful statement from defense secretary hagel this morning. as you said, defending his decision, the president's decision to make this release, to transfer the five gitmo detainees, the taliban members for the release of sergeant bergdahl. secretary hagel mentioned again that the americans leave no soldier behind. he said the transfer was done in a way to minimize future risk. here is more of what the secretary had to say. >> the president's decision to move forward with the transfer of these detainees was a tough call. i supported it, i stand by it. as secretary of defensive the authority and the responsibility, as has been noted here, to determine whether

detainees, any detainees, but these specific detainees at guantanmo bay can be transferred to the custody of another country. i take that responsibility, mr. chairman, members of this committee, damn seriously, damn seriously. >> reporter: now one of the key questions that congress wants to know is why they were not notified. there is a law that says congress needs 30 days notification before a release from guantanmo bay. secretary hagel said this was an extraordinary set of circumstances, that they had to move quickly and they could not put up with any leaks because that would have scuttled the sergeant's release. so he said we couldn't keep you better informed. but he did say that they had to move very quickly, stephanie. >> another aspect of this story that we have been talking about, lisa, is some in his platoon, have called sergeant bergdahl a deserter. what was secretary hagel's response to that? >> reporter: well, the committee members and the secretary all said they were not going to get

in to that during this hearing, that that was not at issue. and they also said they were not happy about how bergdahl and his family have been treated. here is the secretary again. >> like any american, sergeant bergdahl has rights and his conduct will be judged on the facts, not political hearsay, posturing, charges, ori or innu. we so that to any american, especially those that are members of our military and their families. the like most americans i have been offended and disappointed in how the bergdahl family has been treated by some in this country. >> reporter: and the top democrat on the committee also said the way bergdahl has been treated is scandalous. and, again, they all said that was not going to be part of today's hearing. there will be a closed session, a private session with lawmakers after the public part of this hearing to give them more details that they cannot release in the open session.

stephanie. >> lisa stark for us in washington. lisa, thank you? a dramatic shake up in congress. eric cantor lost his seat in the virginia primaries to tea party-backed challenger dave brat. it's the first time ever a house majority leader has lost in a primary. and it happened even though cantor had millions in campaign finds, compared to brat's $200,000. mike viqueira joined us live from washington. mike, i guess we are all learn this is guy's name in morning. >> reporter: you can be forgiven, right. >> whawhat does this surprising upset mean for the republican party? >> reporter: i'll tell you, stephanie, i have spent the morning in the halls of the house of representatives where i am standing right now. and everyone is talking about it. from members whispering in elevators to the tour guides with high school groups from around the country, no one saw this coming. not only was eric cantor expected to be the next speaker of the house, perhaps as early as next year, but no one saw him as even vulnerable in this district, and especially in a

year when the tea party really appeared to be in retreat, they had been losing primaries all spring long. well, all that changed last night when dave brat came out of nowhere to bring down the house majority leader. it's the speech no one saw coming. >> i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure, but i believe in this country, i believe there is opportunity around the next corner for all of us. >> reporter: a concession by an established washington insider to a little-known economics professor. >> this is the happiest moment obviously of my life. and i owe it to all of you in this room, number one. so give yourselves a hand. [cheering and applause] >> reporter: the tea party candidate's win came against huge odds, raising just $200,000 to cantor's 5.4 million, enough for an historic victory. it's the first time ever for a house majority leader to be defeated in a primary.

>> serving as the seventh district congressman and then having the privilege to be majority leader, has been one of the highest honors of my life. and you know, what i set out to do and what the agenda that i have always said were about, is we want to create a virginia and an america that works for everybody. >> reporter: brat easily beat cantor with an 11-point victory. by stick to go issues like immigration, opposing any reform conservatives regard as amnesty, while the majority leader supported a path for citizenship for children brought illegally in to the country. after conditioafrican tour's con speech, immigration stormed it and yelling for reform. >> reporter: before the elects some polls had cantor ahead of brat by 30 points, but that lead showed signs of cracking last month at his party's convention.

>> when i sit here and listen to mr. brat speak brat speak, i he inaccuracies, my family is here -- [booing] >> reporter: but even with the boos, cantor had little reason to worry, but some say the man considered the heir apparent to speaker boehner grew far too removed from the seventh congressional district and too concerned with becoming speaker of the house. >> it just shows that all politics are local. and no no matter how powerful or well-healed you are in washington, d.c., you have to pay attention tension to what's happening at home and you have to stay in touch and in tune with your constituent base. >> reporter: after the election boehner issued a statement saying eric cantor and i have been through a lot together. he's a good friend and a great leader and someone i have come to rely upon on as daily basis as we make the tough choice that his come with governor. at this moment, boehner, eric cantor, many of the republican leadership behind doors trying to sift through the wreckage of

what happened last night. among the first and most immediate questions, what will eric cantor do? he could stay on as majority leader through the end of this year until the next session of congress begins in january. >> how i would love to be a fly on the ball in that meeting. >> reporter: yeah. >> eric cantor is a major player and you mentioned immigration. there is legislation in the house, including on immigration reform, what is this loss going to 19 mean for those bills. bills? >> reporter: conventional wisdom is already congealed. immaterial disoperation a dead letter. if it wasn't before yesterday. because eric cantor had opened the door, just a crack. let's be honest, eric cantor was one of the most conservative members of congress, but he had opened the door just a crack about the young people, the so-called dreamers to allow them to stay in the country with the path to citizenship. that was enough of an opening to upset conservative voters in that republican primary. and, again, everybody had left the tea party for dead. obviously the tea party is still alive and kicking. one thing we saw from that

piece, a lot of things are becoming obvious now in hindsight. eric cantor did not run a very good race. he took his district for granted. he goes around the country raising money constantly for other candidates within the republican party. and also his ad campaign with all that money that he had, only served to elevate his opponent david brat by attacking him. no one had ever really heard of that guy. today they have heard of him all along croacross the country. >> we saw a little bit of what he said yesterday in his victory speech. have we heard anything else from mr. brat today? >> reporter: not so far. we haven't heard anything from any of the principles involved. as you can imagine the scene here in the capital is one of a media crush everybody looking for eric cantor, john boehner and the republican leadership. it's a maze in these old buildings and they have managed to allude the press so far and don't expect picture to hear friend them until any know what the plan is in the coming months

to finish out the congress. >> mike viqueira for us in washington. mike, thank you. it was a different store any south carolina the tea party was not victorious there. incumbent senator lindsay graham easily won tuesday's primary. the second-term senator beat out six. including a tea party candidate. graham grabbed 57% of the vote. bright 15. the tea party had failed to unseat mitch mcconnell. in mississippi tea party challenging chris mcdonald has forced a primary run off against incumbent senator thad cochran. the situation is deteriorating rapidly in iraq. a second city has fallen to armed groups this morning, run over by the islamic state of iraq in the levante off isil and other groupings, more fighting is going on. aal jazerra's omar is in baghdad for us. what is the latest on the

fighting? >> reporter: let me start in the capital baghdad in the last hour or so we have a car bomb explosion at an area called is daissadrcity his. then a target in a marketplace killing three people, another car bomb killed five. so the situation in the capital is deteriorating. back for mosul. the situation is calm but very tense, isil fighters are controlling more than 85% of that city. those fighters moved onto tick writ, the capital city of, it's the birth place of the former leader, is dam saddam law hussey were asking security force to his take off their uniform and

hand in their weapons and go freely. we are also hearing reports that there are fighting at the outskirts of the city. so the situation in that area of iraq in the center and north of iraq is very flew i i had and very tense. >> what is the government doing in baghdad to restore order in all of the places that seem to have literally fallen overnight? >> reporter: well, the government and the prime minister seems to be taking this deteriorating security conditions very seriously. however they failed to take any concrete steps, apart from holding urgent meetings. tomorrow, that's thursday, parliament is expected to hold a session, expect them to declare the state of emergency. now the prime minister also in his speech about three hours ago said that the government will stand behind the iraqi forces he

believes in the capability of the forces he said we lost teheran but not the battle and that our fight is terrorism is eternal and will not end any time soon. he also called on volunteers from mosul to form an army of volunteers to root out members of the islamic state of iraq and levante. >> omar with the latest. thank you. in south kia a massive search. he is considered the most wanted man in the country. thousands of cops and prosecutors searched the jerry today but couldn't find him. his company owned the ship that sanction last april. this comes a day after the crew went on trial. the ferry capsized with nearly 500 passengers. most of whom were never rescued and presumed drowned. the world cup kicks off

tomorrow night in sow paolo but with brazil facing social and economic problems many say the country shouldn't be hosting the games, president defended the games in a televised address. >> translator: there are people who came the resources for the cup should have been direct today health care and education. i hear and respect those opinions, but i don't agree with them. it's a false dilemma. >> she said the $11 billion it took to get ready was worth it. she said the tournament is going to have a lasting legacy on infrastructure. here is more from rio. >> reporter: the world cup visitors, the party is already underway. what for the next month will be the world capital of football. this european fan saved up for more than two years to make the journey to brazil. >> i am rooting for england first of all, because i am born and raised there. and then ghana. >> translator: it's a world cup event like no other. a sport that brings the masses

together. and stirs patriotism, no matter what your country's problems says this man from spain, the current world cup champion. but. >> reporter: but visitors from all the competing companies are convince the now it's their chance. in rio de janeiro, fans from every continent take photos outsides the stadium where the final match will be held. >> brazil. >> reporter: but a few meters away, brazilian public serve amountservantsare outraged at af corruption and waste. >> it's totally crazy to understand the government pay millions and millions to football. and the people nothing. >> reporter: residents of this middle class street have put out the welcome mat for the world cup. but they are the exception. as we saw for ourselves from one of the city's highest fan taj

points. be it in poor or rich neighborhoods, what most fans out is what's missing of course the houses, the streets, the buildings are not pla plasteredh brazilian flags and decorations as they have always had before the world cup. even those thousands kilometer as way. these football lovers tell us they will be watching the games, but not celebrating the expense associated with hosting it. a somber mood, yes, but one that many hope will give way to the passion for football, that brazilians are known for once the tournament actually gets underway. lou see anew man, al jazerra, rio de janeiro. thousands of cab drivers take to the streets in london to protest. find out why drivers tried to bring traffic to a standstill. and risking it all, children traveling thousands of miles in search of the american dream, coming up on al jazerra america, we'll show you some of the dangers of crossing the border.

big traffic disruptions today in london. taxi drivers are protesting the mobile app uber. the app created in san francisco allows people to call private black cars with a finger swipe on their smart phones. the drivers say the app endangers their livelihood. protesters want uber to be bound by the save laws they are, it has been banned in several u.s. and european city. big u.s. and government leaders are joining forces to end sexual violence in war. as barnaby phillips reports they are focusing on how to prosecute crimes and prevent future ones. >> reporter: it's an unlikely alliance between the british politician and the hollywood film star but both are passionate about ending sexual violence in conflict. >> we must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence, that the name is on the aggressor. >> reporter: it was a

partnership strengthened in bosnia earlier this year, they srez tid war crimes sites and heard of how 10s of thousands of women who were raped in the war live with shame and trauma. only a handful of men have faced justice for these crimes. she says she was raped in the town by a serb paramilitary leader. it happened in this building. she says bod nia's women have to speak about what happened to them. >> translator: as long as they are silent, they will feel like they are carrying anatomic bomb in their chest. you live with the trauma, you sleep with it and you wake up with it. >> reporter: people have come here from all over the world and they'll find plenty of support and solidarity. but the real test of this conference is whether it has any impact on future wars. and whether sexual violence is less prevalent in them than it has been in so many recent wars and upon flicks. there are many stories of courage and dignity here.

the politicians that come later in the week will try to harness this spirit and reach an agreement that can somehow be enforced in many of the world's most dangerous places. barnaby phillips, al jazerra, london. the gou gout mall an conflit will hold a conference, some of the children have ended up at detention centers in the south west, but even more troubling are the men migrants who don't survive the crossing. heidi jo castro reports from texas. >> reporter: in a texas cemetery 80 miles from the boardser are the unknown and often unmarked graves of people who died seeking the american dream. hundreds of undocumented immigrants are buried here. >> in biohazard bags, in garbage bags. we found one in a shopping bag that was from the -- that was from the funeral home. >> reporter: dr. lori baker and her team of forensic volunteers

from baylor university of exhuming the bodies in hopes of one day returning them to their families. the team comes every year, it's never an easy job. but this year, the discoveries are especially troubling. >> they could be children, they could be children. some of the bags that we are taking out are very, very small. >> reporter: the sig scientists won't know for sure until they test the bodies in the labs, but they say with a number of minors crossing the valley tripling the number of child deaths will as well. baker says most of the children's bodies will go undiscovered. >> their bones are small as it is and, once scavengers come in and once they did he compose they will be even harder to find, i think that's why we are not finding many yet. >> reporter: how con pit dents are you there they are out there and how many do you think? >> i can't imagine. there has to be so many. we find so many adults, there has to be so many children.

>> reporter: brooks county rancher mike vickers sees it firsthand, as one of the private citizens who help roundup undocumented immigrants. he offense rescues children lost in his land. >> we find children all the time left behind here. and they were starve to go death. they hadn't had food or without miles an hour three or four days they were bad shape, dehydrated, throwing up, bleeding from the nostrils, a sign of dehydration,. >> reporter: sometimes he says they find small bodies. >> there is a ranch further east of her here that they found a young boy dead on a hot day like today three, four, five people die out here in brooks county, maybe more. >> reporter: so why so many so many bodies here 80 miles north. border. the checkpoint down the highway is key. the sheriff says smugglers will drive them no further than this point and here is where they take off on foot through the

rough terrain the nearest town is 15 miles way. >> they walk this way through all this private property through this deep sand. kids can't keep up. the women can't keep up. >> reporter: what happens to these kids? >> they die if they can't find their way out of here they die. >> it's devastating. it's so wrong that this is happening. so wrong that it's been happening for so long. and i am amazed that there is no public outrage. this needless loss of life and it's happening so abundantly across the boarder and there seems to be a callousness towards it. >> reporter: but here in the dirt lies reality. the lives of men, well, and children that ended before their dreams could even begin. heidi jo castro, al jazerra, texas. up next on al jazerra america, people in india are trying to find relief from a staggering heat wave as the country deals with some of the highest temperatures its had in over 50 years.

welcome back to al jazerra america, i am steffi sy. here are the headlines at this hour.

a second city in iraq has fallen. half a million people are fleeing mosul as isil seized that city yesterday. also in iraq, at least 18 people are dead following three bomb blasts in dag dad, they occurred just a short while ago. the first public hearing on the bowe bergdahl case is happening this morning, defense secretary chuck hagel has been defending the administration's decision to negotiate his release without consulting congress, he said it was legal and in the nation's best interest. people in india are suffering from a staggering heat wave right now. temperatures in india have recently soared to over 116 degrees, that's a 50 year high. as if that wasn't enough. people in the northern part of the country can't use air-conditioners because of blackouts. ♪ ♪ i am meteorologist dave warren. on top of all that the monsoon

normally develops and pushes inland is a little slower this year and causing it to slow down in the east coast th of india te is a cyclone in the arabian sea. hoping the moisture returns and provides some relief to the heat there. it's been slower and things not helping the situation there. showers and storms developing across the northeast of the united states, severe weather will be a problem this afternoon as the wind can pick up as the storms develop. clouds should start to clear up a bit and that will fuel the thunderstorms over the next few hours, temperatures are in to the upper 70s in washington but a little cooler in philadelphia, new york, that cooler air comes in from the northeast, you can see that this time of year, slowly that warm air will try to make its progress north but not making much leeway farther north up in philadelphia. heat and humidity. that is the high humidity which goes all the way up the coast here. thanks to the storm and just to the southeast of this low, we could see that severe weather developing later this afternoon and this evening.

okay, dave, thank you. and thank you for watching al jazerra america. i am stephanie sy. "inside story" is next and for news updates throughout the day, head to our website aljazerra.com. >> is the united states innovated iraq the united states invaded iraq and over through saddam hussein more than a decade ago and then spent years pacifying the country, hoping to leave behind a stable rebuilding nation. one of the countries main cities has fallen to gorilla fighters and the baghdad government may be losing its grip. that's the "inside story": ♪ ♪ ." ♪ ♪