one-seat plane on friday and the two teams trying to recreate the flight who was the first person to cross the channel in a plane in his 11 made of wooden fabric and this was made of a full carbon composite. >> south carolina prepares to take down its state flag from the capitol. >> we're going to sit at the negotiating table forever. >> a warning to the world as negotiators push past the deadline to reach a nuclear deal with iran. >> down to the wire, a new greek proposal could end the country's debt crisis, but european leaders are split on whether it

is the best deal. >> this is aljazeera america. good morning. live from new york city, i'm randall pinkston. the first shot of the civil war was fired in south carolina. for decades the confederate flag has been a fixture ocean of the state capitol but that changes in a few hours the battle flag will come down and moved to the relic room. the governor signed a bill to remove the flag yesterday. at her side, family members of victims from last month's church massacre in charleston. diane, tell us how the program will go this morning for the removal of the flag. >> randall we've gotten very few details from the state on how things are going to proceed this morning.

we know there's going to be a ceremony at 10:00. the flag will be lowered carried away in an armored vehicle. it's going to be taken to the south carolina confederate relic room and military museum here in columbia, about a mile away. we're going to have to waist and see how things proceed as the day progresses. >> with all the controversy, i imagine security is tight. >> it is. after the governor signed the bill into law barricades went up around the perimeter of the statehouse lawn. we've seen a huge police presence here just a few minutes ago, we saw some law enforcement walk through here with bomb sniffing dogs, and last night the columbia city council passed a measure that would ban any weapons around the statehouse, so yeah, there's stepped-up police enforcement. we're expecting the possibility

of thousands of people to turn out to this this morning. >> we're still about two and a half hours away. i'm just looking at the picture behind up right now. it appears that it's mostly media that has gathered. i'm wondering have you seen perhaps from poe testers or people you're meeting there any resistance to take the flag down? >> no. we haven't seen that at all. very early in the week, we saw a small number of people who were pro-flag protestors, protesting side by side with the people who wanted to see the flag come down and it was very peaceful. at times there's some heated discussion but it never really got violent at all. yesterday, there were only really a couple of people out here that were flag supporters that were left, so most of the people here now are really people in favor of the flag coming down, so it's been very quiet.

>> we haven't really talked about this, but it must be noted that the flag stands next to a confederate memorial which will remain ocean of the state capitol. >> it will. that's been discussed. some of the people who are supporters of the flag were really worried that if the flag comes down, that next they're going to go after monuments but legislators say that's not going to happen. >> thank you. we'll join you for the removal of the flag later today. as south carolina prepares to take down the confederate flag at the state capitol the debate over the controversial banner stretched to washington and led to contentious moments on the house floor. mikemike viqueira has more. >> a new front opened in the battle over the flag, the floor of the u.s. house. >> you lost the war. it's time for you to join the

rest of the country. >> tuesday the house easily passed a measure that would bar the confederate flag from national park service cemeteries, most of which are civil war sites like gettysburg. late wednesday night republicans led an effort to reverse course and allowed displays of the flag. by thursday morning the house was in an uproar. >> don't republicans understand that the confederate battle flag is an insult to 40 million african-americans and to many other fair minded americans? >> right now the park service allows small

confederate battle flags. >> we have people here on the floor that say they're offended by a symbol. >> that position brought ridicule from the white house. >> when you hear me say that congressional republicans have an agenda out of step with the vast majority of americans this record at least in part, that's what i'm referring to. >> it's a political fight that gop congressional leaders hoped to avoid and an issue they fear will hurt them politically. house speaker john boehner supports the removal of the flag. >> i think it's time for some duties here in the congress to sit down and have a conversation about how to address this issue. i do not want this to become some political football. it should not. >> even under the capitol dome, statues hold a revered place like the flag, symbols not of freedom, but of horror. >> the red on this flag is a painful reminder of the blood

that was shed by african-american slaves who were beaten raped lynched and killed here in america as a result of the institution of slavery. what exactly is the tradition the con represents. >> hackers stole 21.5 million social security numbers. information was taken from government servers on more than 19 million people who applied for background checks and another 2 million of their family members. the government said only 4 million current workers were affect. >> secretary of state john kerry would the u.s. and five negotiating partners will not be

rushed over a nuclear deal with ran but said there is a limit to american patients. talks have missed the deadline to hand over a plan to congress. kerry said while these negotiations cannot be open-ended, no single deadline can be more important than getting a strong nuclear agreement. >> we also recognize that we shouldn't get up and leave simply because the clock be strikes midnight. >> kerry's iranian counterpart agrees, saying his delegation is prepared to stay as long as it takes as they work through the sticking point. >> britain's foreign minister said those negotiations will continue tomorrow. ali velshi is live in tehran this morning opinion iranian leaders are saying that the deadlines are not their deadlines to begin with. any reaction in tehran today to secretary kerry's

>> russia and iran support the syrian regime and have some interest in common around here. that's the backdrop of the negotiations here. iran needs to come back, get a deal that the supreme leader will accept. john kerry has to go back with a deal the president is going to accept, congress isn't going to accept it any way but congress can vote it down, the president veto it and ultimately have a deal. that's where things stand.

>> you've been meeting people on the streets of tehran. what is the most important aspect of the deal for the offering iranian. >> kind of the same as everywhere else. it's the economy. they want sanctions lifted lifted. inflation is running 15%. this is an industrialized country. you can possibly see behind me cranes modern buildings, they manufacture things in this country. they want back into the global economy and mostly want the removal of banking sanctions that will allow iranian businesses and individuals to transfer money around the world bye goods and import and export. that is mostly what all iranians want. that's the story that they're telling me. they're not as concerned about

the details of the nuclear negotiations. they want their economy back. >> president obama sent condolences to the saudi royal fall after the death of a prince. the 75-year-old was in the u.s. at the time of his death yesterday. no cause was given. he had reportedly been in poor health for sometime. he was the world's longest serving foreign minister. secretary of state john kerry called him one of the wisest. he left the post two months ago after serving for 40 years. >> within hours greece's parliament will meet to discuss the prime minister's latest proposal to creditors. alexis tsipras is trying to keep his country in the euro zone. his plan includes severe and you say at herty measures in exchange for more loans but some greeks are not sure what has will mean for them.

>> these measures have brought people to their niece who are now saying let's be done with this p.m. we are all very sad but don't want to leave europe. >> france's president calls the proposal serious and credible, but german officials say it leaves little room for negotiation. >> pope francis said the percent excuse of people is a form of genocide. the pope briefly went into a burger king before saying mass thursday. the fast food restaurant served as a place for him changing robes. >> on the money beat, master card accused of overcharging customers in europe. the european union wants to file an anti trust claim against the

credit card processor saying they may force retailers to pay artificially inflated fees to process transactions. the e.u. is also investigating visa. >> a midwestern town faces a string of unsolved deaths. why families say the victims' troubled pasts are delaying the investigation.

>> a ticker tape parade will go held in new york city for the women's soccer team. the world cup champs will go down broad day. they are the first women's team to be honored with the iconic new york city parade. >> hundreds of native americans are in washington d.c. attending the first white house tribal youth conference. the obama administration put a focus on improving the lives of young native americans. the community is not waiting for the government's help. we have this report. >> in this isolated fishing town at tip of the continental u.s., the school is a source of pride. >> after i graduated i volunteered here and i read with

older students that couldn't read and i got pretty upset bit and decided i wanted to try to do something about it. >> she is an example of what makes this 95% native american school work, a former student who cared enough to come back home and help. the white house initiative stresses the importance of emphasizing native culture in schools and putting more power in the hands of local leaders. the interior department will provide $2 million in grants for tribes targeting students who need help getting into college. much of the cultural focus and local control is already happening here, using local money, studying the original language is required. students build modern verses of ancient canoes. leaders sit on the local school board. it was the tribe that paid to bring in high speed internet last fall, replacing the old slower than dial up system. in much of the native american

community, the education picture isn't quite this happy. the obama administration estimates federally run indian schools need nearly a billion dollars in basic repairs and upgrades. only 50% of native american youth graduate from high school, just 13% earn college did he degrees. >> i'll tell you good statistics about the number of our kids passing tests learning their language. >> sit at lunch with seen nor joshua and his friends and you'll feel the optimism. he is headed for dart mouth this fall. students tell me the tribe expects them to succeed. >> they're really pushing for education, really pushing for people to go off and go to college, but then to come back and apply it here, where it counts. >> extra support from d.c. is always welcome but they made decisions and budget changes six years ago to focus on learning. >> i bear a responsibility and this body bears a responsibility to make a better future for

those that come after us in the leadership. would you rather act than wait for more outside help? >> absolutely. yeah. in the classroom the next generation moves ahead. thanks to the tribe says efforts, they anticipate 89% will graduate on time. >> makes me want to cry because i'm so proud. >> aljazeera america washington. >> poachers in africa kill about 96 elephants every day. that means one dies every 15 minutes for its ivory. now china is launching an effort to stop the mass killings. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's environmental report. how is china doing something to stop the extension of elephants. >> one moved that stunned environmentalists in a good way china is saying they're going to shut down their ivory trade and

since they are the biggest recipient of the illegal ivory that is a big deal. 20,000-35,000 elephants willed every year for their ivory. the first time china has committed to tailoring that ivory market. they have a legal market that covers for a lot of the illegal activity, and that is the problem. here's some of those trafficking routes from africa, the vast majority about 70% moves right to china and other areas in the region, but china alone is 70% of that. there's a hope that china's statement will provide similar commitments from some of these other regional countries that consume the ivory. they crushed about 1500 pounds of the illegal ivory as they made the announcement as a symbolic gesture as they tighten those restrictions, it will be harder to sell the

ivory. you can sem the legal stuff between people and if they get caught, they say it was the legal stuff. 90% is illegal it covers for what is legal out there and china homes that own it, about 80%, many more people have started buying it as the chinese middle class has expanded and they've been able to afford it. 84% of people in china say they would buy i've representative if they had the opportunity. it runs for about a thousand dollars per unit that you get so it makes a lot of money for the poachers out there. this will be a big curbing of that when people can't sell it throughout china for too long. >> thanks, nicole. >> on the tech beat, a new way to wade through your seemingly endless facebook feed. the social media site is releasing a new feature called see first helping users control which posts they want to see

more than others. so far it is only rolled out on the app for i phones and i pads. that's it for us now. stephanie sy is back in two minutes with more aljazeera america morning news.

>> south carolina is just hours away from taking the confederate flag off the state capitol grounds. >> we will bring it down with dignity and we will make sure that it is put in its rifle place. >> digging in to hammer out a nuclear deal with iran. part of the fallout from a high

school football team celebration some say was racist. >> this is al jazeera live from new york city, i'm stephanie sy. the confederate flag has been a fixture on the south carolina statehouse grounds for five decades, but that is about to change. in two hours the flag will be taken down and moved to the state's confederate relic room. the area around the memorial has been cordoned off and we are live in south carolina. diane, good morning. walk us through how this is all going to happen this morning. >> good morning. we don't have very many details. we do know that an honor guard is going to be lowering the flag. there will be no music. after that, the flag will be

transported in an armored vehicle to the relic room and military museum, less than a mile away from here. thousands could turn out today for what could be another historic day for south carolina. >> with the stroke of a. he, history was made. >> when the motions start to fade, the history of the action that took place by everyone in south carolina to get us to this moment is one that we can all be proud of. >> the law removing the flag was passed after a contentious 13 our debate in the state house of representatives, pitting flag opponents against supporters. >> if we try to hide our history, the unfortunate facts that show throughout history is you have a tendency to repeat it. >> the legislation was prompted by the murder of nine african-americans last month in

charleston's emanuel a.m.e. church. the accused smoother, dylann roof was photographed holding the confederate flag. he's charged with nine counts of murder, but not with a hate crime, because one doesn't exist in south carolina. some legislators think the move to take down the flag could pave the way for a hate crimes law as well. >> we can't depend on the federal government for everything. we need in-house laws to send a strong message where we can copyedit things when it happens. >> this representative thinks the timing may be right but said legislators should approach cautiously. >> i don't want to read too much into this. it's important that the expectation not be set at a bar that's unattainable and people get disenchanted and feel defeated, it is all back to business as usual. >> for now jubilant anti flag protestors are happy the flag is finally coming down, but even

she admits removing a symbol that many associate with racial hatred will not end it entirely. >> we've got a long way to go, because middle part of the big enchilada. >> the governor is meeting with aids to talk about how the ceremony is going to proceed this morning. >> diane, thank you. >> in response to the flag coming down, the ncaa is lifting a 15 year ban on south carolina, hosting championship events. we will bring you full coverage of the flag coming down here on aljazeera america. >> the iran nuclear talks will resume tomorrow. then missed a deadline set by congress to turn over plans for a 30 day review. that means congress will now get 60 days to look over any deal. secretary of state john kerry says there's a talent to

american patience but also said the u.s. and five negotiating partners will not be rushed. >> we also recognize that we shouldn't get up and leave simply because the clock strikes midnight. >> his iranian counterpart agrees, saying his delegation is prepared to stay as long as it takes, although the meetings are happening behind closed doors a reported sticking point is iranian demand for the lifting of the conventional arms embargo. ali velshi is live for us. you've been in iran several days now. we are hearing about a rise in anti american allies. have you witnessed that and are they tied to these nuclear talks? >> there's one underway right now. this is a day related to the -- sort of around the muslim world the last friday of ramadan the

rallies against what they call the israeli occupation of palestinian. that rally always happens but in this case, because the hardliners understand that this negotiating is going hard in vienna, this is sort of a last stand for them if they get this deal. these are people against this deal. they are against iran giving anything up, particularly its nuclear program. in addition to just being rallies against israel, the hardliners have called for these rallies to be against what they call western imperial powers, including the united states. i'm on a balcony high above tehran, no sense of disruption, it's a particularly orderly city. there are rallies going on underway. i don't know if little a rise against anti american sentiment as much as the hardliners understanding if they don't get people protesting a deal like this they may end on the losing end of this one. >> when you talk to some americans, they still have such

a great mistrust of iranians. you've spent several days in tehran at this point. do you get that sense when you talk to the average iranian that they have the mistrusts of americans given the long and contentious mistrust between our two countries? >> >> ok, i apologize with that obviously our live shot out of tehran, we have lost that. officials say a top official

died, he was a member of the pakistani taliban before joining isil. >> greece's parliament is set to meet for discussion about the latest proposal to end the country's debt crisis. alexis tsipras is trying to keep his country in the euro zone. the plan raises taxes on businesses and gets rid of tax discounts in lucrative industries like tourism. it cuts military spending. tsipras's proposal would reform the pension program discouraging early retirement and increasing how much retirees pay for health care. the government wants to cut back on tax evasion a huge problem in greece, including new anti corruption laws, anew auditing system and bigger penalties for tax evaders. what does greece want in return for these concessions? >> >> if these are approved by parliament i think the greeks

want what the prime minister said he hopes to achieve. he hopes to bring back the 35 billion euro investment package. they want the restructuring of debt, which means rescheduling the debt payments so that the greeks get a 40 year period to repay the $350 billion that they owe the world, rather than the current 16 year period, which is deemed unsustainably short. if they achieve those things in brussels over the weekend i think they will have solved the two biggest criticisms, one i also that the austerity measures do not produce growth, they produce recession and the other is despite the fact that the government keeps getting bailed out, ultimately, the debt is unsustainable because the greeks can never again rate enough wealth to meet the annual

payments. by stretching them out, they would be smaller. >> are you getting a sense of whether this is going to go through parliament? wild greeks accept this after voting against austerity measures in that referendum last weekend? >> there seems to be more of a momentum in favor of just moving down the road despite that referendum. the greek parliament has now in addition to the committee discussions that you mentioned earlier schedules a plenary session to begin four hours from now. that suggests to me that the government is now trying to accelerate the process and even to perhaps approve this package of prior actions before this goes to brussels to win what he can from his creditors. so this suggests there is now a process of preapproval underway. i think that the fact that the referendum took place does not necessarily kill the package that was being considered.

greeks did vote against it, but there was a symbolic nature to the referendum. it was a no to austerity in general. if there is a package that's brought home that includes the development and the sustainability of the debt, then the government will be able to defend it. it will be able to say we have brought 12 billion euros worth of recessionary measures home but also brought three times that amount of growth measures and we brought definite sustainability, so the compare package will be more palatable. this referendum was called when the greek delegation felt it was an impasse and was something of a ploy to put pressure on germany to give way. even though the referendum ultimately took place and wasn't called off it wasn't ultimately used for leverage. even so, i thinkle think its no result can be interpreted differently.

>> john, thank you. >> the head of the government's personnel office is refusing calls to resign after the obama administration revealed hackers stole 21.5 million social security numbers. information was taken from government servers on more than 19 million people who applied for background checks and another 2 million of their family members. the government original said in our million current and former government workers were affected. >> the f.b.i. says it disrupted multiple july 4 plots against the u.s. director james comey said agents detained a dozen suspects with ties to isil in the month before the holiday. he wouldn't discuss specific cases, but said he believed the bureau's efforts saved lives. >> president obama's pick to become the nation's top military officer believes russia proposes the greatest threat to national security. he made the statement during his confirmation hearing to become

the next joint chiefs chairman. he said the kremlin's actions are creating serious problems for the u.s. and its allies. >> in russia, we have a nuclear power. we have one that not only has the capability to vital the sovereignty of our allies and to do things that are inconsistent with our gnarl interest, but are in the pros of doing so. if you want to talk about a nation posing a existential threat to the united states, i would point to russia. it is nothing less than alarming. >> if swirled, martin dempsey is stepping down in december. >> a ceasefire is set to take affect tonight in yemen until next week, allowing humanitarian aid to be delivered across the country. more than 80% of yemen's population is in need of emergency aid. >> the saudi royal family is mourning the death of a prince today, the 75-year-old spent decades as the foreign minister.

president obama and other world leaders are praising the prince as an advocate for peace. >> he was the world's longest serving foreign minister, his career spanned almost 40 years. he has seen the world change, global leaders come and go, including his own. he served under four saudi kings, advancing the kingdoms foreign policy especially after the attacks--

getting iraqi troops to come and be trained. >> appreciate it. more from you later in our 7:00 p.m. newscast. let's get to jami macintyre. mike, if you would, stay with me for a second. i think you're right, that the president seemed to be suggesting we need our coalition partners, we need the hearts and mind campaign. if you think this is does the united states is going to be able to defeat, you need to think again that we're going to need all stake holders to come to the table in order to degrade

and ultimately defeat isil. did you hear it that way, as well? >> yes, tony, a couple of hours ago, the questioning was about the situation now around raqqa which is the capital within syria of isil, north of where the i.p.g. has taken small ground only to have them threatened again by isil. carter was asked about that. he says this is in fitting with our policies, the united states really stepping up the aerial bombardment over raqqa, one official counts, 18 strikes and taking out of bridges, of fighting units of isil. it fits into the strategy in that they are relying on forces on the ground, not of course u.s. troops, boots on the ground, is part and parcel of their effort which has gone

nowhere to train the syrian opposition and stops and starts, the fitful start to the president's ambition to retain iraqi forces. here you have the kurdish forces coming out of northern iraq and

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a looks at today's top stories. jurors in the colorado theater shooting trial will not hear from accused killer james holmes. defense attorneys are trying to show he was in sane when he opened fire in a colorado movie theater, killing 12. >> firefighters in arkansas are lucky to be alive. a massive explosion, two inside a burning home when it blew up. they escaped with only minor injuries.

the homes residents were safely evacuated before the explosion. >> three sisters who disappeared hiking in the wyoming back country have been found and they're ok. the experienced backpackers were supposed to return home tuesday. crews started searching for them after their car was found wednesday. authorities say the sisters apparently made a wrong turn. >> a federal appeals court is hearing arguments over whether to lift the injunction blocking president obama's executive actions on immigration. jonathan martin has more from new orleans. >> good morning. more than 500 immigration rights advocates will be gathering outside the federal appeals court here as the fifth circuit court of appeals will be hearing from justice appointment lawyers on one side and other side, officials for more than two dozen states. at issue are deferred action programs protecting undocumented migrants who arrived in the u.s.

as children and undocument parents of american born children. it would grant work permits. many opponents say the president in issuing this order overreached his bounds and overstepped his power because this was issued without the approval from congress. this may be an uphill battle for the penalty's administration as two of the three judges on this panel today are conservative. in fact, they are two of the same judges who back in may ruled against the president's administration when they were seeking a lift on the injunction that had been in place that had been put in place by a district judge in the accident. again, arguments happening today here in new orleans and the fifth circuit court of appeals but will likely be a few weeks before a decision is made. >> let's bring in an attorney with the national immigration law center in new orleans for the hearing. good morning. you have been working on this case. how important is this hearing

today? i think today's hearing is really important an important step in the lawsuit. it's an opportunity for the fifth circuit court to weigh whether they're going to allow the implement is a of expanded to go ahead while this lawsuit proceeds. >> what has the freeze in the implementation of the policy meant for immigrants to have the threat of deportation lifted? >> sadly and unfortunately every day that passes that this programs are blocked from implementation is another day that up to a 5 million of our immigrant brothers and sisters across this country continue to lack protection from deportation and live in fear of being deported and separated from their families, which is unacceptable. we all know they are contributing to the communities and society on a daily basis and

to serve the very hard fought win they got in getting the administration to go ahead and issue the program. >> this is one president issuing a single action and from a legal perspective, opponents say the president can't do that. he can't simply change the law or decide which laws he'll enforce. how do you argue against that? >> there is plenty of legal precedent. it's not just legal rights, advocacy groups and scores and scores of legal scholars across the country have weighed in on the fact that the president acted within his authority to enforce the immigration laws -- >> more than two dozen states disagree. let me ask you this. what are you expecting going forward with this case? what are you prepared for? >> we are looking forward to

today's hearing and the court an opportunity to hear arguments on this issue. i think next, whatever happens we know this will probably get appealed, whatever the decision is in the few weeks or months, will get appealed and we are also very cognizant of the fact this isn't just a legal battle in the courthouse, this is happening in the streets and communities and we are vowing to continue to fight this in my the end, because we know that when we look back, i have the is on our side. we are on the right legal side of this battle and we know that eventually, these programs will be implemented. as to your question on was it a win for the community, it was certainly a win. are we done? no. i think that we are not going to stop. the community will not stop until there is comprehensive immigration reform that addresses the brothers and sisters who live here and have to live in the shadows because we can't decide to move on

immigration reform. >> thank you for your time this morning. >> undocumented migrants are getting a mixed message in one part of georgia. the community needs them to work but they don't want the migrants to live there. robert ray is in georgia. >> this is dalton georgia north of atlanta about 100 miles, it's known as the carpet capital of the world. in the 1980's and 1990's, immigrants flocked here looking for jobs. the jobs here are because of the carpet industry, stores and mills that continue to thrive even today. there's a lot of families here that have been torn apart because of illegal immigration policies, many parents have been sent back to mexico or central america and the kids left with family members that are current residing here. many of them want president obama's executive order to go through. what that will entail is not

necessarily a path to citizenship but temporary work we are mitt that could keep families here and kids in school that were born here. many are scared as they tell al jazeera if they get pulled over with a driver's license or they don't have a driver's license if they're perhaps walking to work and found out that they're illegal, that they're going to be put in a jail and sent back to where they're originally from. a lot of these people are looking for a better life up here even though they say life is not as good as what they thought it was but better than what they had in mexico or central america. >> you can see the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> it's called watermelon gate. ahead, the high school football celebration that has divided a south carolina school district along racial lines. >> the midwestern town where heroin has taken hold now rocked by a string of unsolved deaths.

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:30 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. in 90 minutes the confederate flag will come down at the south carolina state capitol grounds it la flown there for five decades. the governor signed a bill to remove the flag yesterday. at her side, victims of the shootings at emanuel a.m.e. church in charleston. >> greece's parliament will meet to discuss the latest proposal to end the debt crise. prime minister tsipras is trying to stay in the europe zone. they have to decide by sunday whether toisech greece's plan. >> nuclear talks have ended for the day in sienna. secretary of state john kerry pledges patience bur said the u.s. is till prepared to walk away if tough decisions aren't

made. an advisor said kerry's remarks are psychological warfare against iran. do you think at this point the technical aspects of the deal are worked out and we're just talking politics? >> i think a majority of the problems technical problems have been solved, but there are a number of issues that should be discussed. the most important of those issues are one of inspections. second is the timing of sanction relief. they are still discussing those issues. >> if a deal is made at this point, who is more likely to derail the deal, the hardliners in iran or here in the united states? >> i think that iranians are in a better position in that record. the iranian negotiation team from the beginning have

consulted with the supreme leader and the supreme leader -- if a deal is signed, it is much easier for the iranian government to back a deal and make sure that they can implement a deal. in the u.s., it is a different story. president obama will have a much more difficult -- >> time getting it through congress. >> yeah. >> you wrote a piece in politico called why iran supreme leader wants a deal. what that convinces you that's the case. >> over the past 18 months, the stream leader repeatedly supposedly negotiation team, even though he a number of times like two weeks ago created a number of red lines that made many concerned that might be against agreement they made in lausanne a few months ago but the overall picture is that the

supreme leader always supported negotiations, but to basically feed the hardliners in tehran i'm concerned about the deal or any deal with the u.s. or the west he has criticized some of the details of the negotiations, but in general overall he has been very much in favor of the negotiations. i think at this point, it is not any alternative option, so i think they are in this negotiations to win it, to get it, not to blow it. >> another thing in your article is you interviewed somebody close to president rouhani who said iran has not been in the talks for 18 months to blow it, but to make a deal, but at a certain point if these talks continue to drag on, is it possible they just fall apart. >> it's possible. i think at this moment, the good thing is that for both sides there's no other alternative. for iranians, suffering from

sanctions for years it has been isolated from the outside world and very costly for iran. for iran, there is no alternative. for the western countries the u.s., there is not alternatives, too, because if there is no deal, the alternative is military. >> or more sanctions. >> or more sanctions. that's not going to secure the region. a deal with iran would be the best option for all and that's why they have had like a number of self imposed deadlines but they had to extend those deadlines -- >> john kerry is not going to stay in vienna all summer. >> of course. i think we will see the coming next do you days now, we will see much more progress in the process. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. good to see you. >> as we mentioned the confederate flag is coming down today at the state capitol grounds in south carolina. that is not the only place in

that state facing questions over race relations. a high school in charleston is dealing with the repercussions from a celebration many say had racist overtones. tony harris has the story. >> the superintendent is the flashpoint in the school district deeply divided along race and class lines in the aftermath of a mass shooting and an ugly episode at a majority white high school. her appointment driven by school board chair woman cindy bond coats has raised many questions about her hiring process. >> we have said from the beginning, i wanted someone with superintendent experience. >> for many in charleston's black community dr. lisa harris, the deputy superintendent of charleston county schools was the only candidate with the right experience to manage the fallout from a provocative incident that recently rocked the city. >> last october it came to light that members of the football team from academic magnet high school were engaging

in an odd watermelon ritual after wins. members of the team would buy watermelons and draw big toothy grins on them and smash them after victories while allegedly making monkey sounds. >> after they would beat these teams, predominantly turned out to be african-american teams they would pick up a watermelon, draw a character on it. >> with william pugh was on magnet high school. he is not on the team but wrote an article for the school website about the rituals that happened last fall. he reached out to members of the football team. >> all the times i would try to talk to them, see what perspective their viewing it from and why they didn't see correlation between stereo types and watermelons and african-americans and a lot of times, it was a lot of i guess friction. >> after the watermelon ritual

became widely known football coach bud wallpole was fired by the superintendent. outcry from the community and pressure from the school board led by cindy von coats resulted in the coach being rehired. when the dust settled mcginnly was out of a job. into this tempest every steps this woman hired by a 5-4 vote which went along racial lines. >> it appears that this school board is the most arrogant that we've dealt with in many a year. they just frankly don't care when the public thinks. >> we do have an issue when it comes to diversity and integration in our school. >> michael miller is a charleston county school board member. >> we have the school choice option, which is something the district put forward several years ago which in essence gives parents an opportunity to choose what kind of schools they want to send their children too. some think that is also partly of this underlying act to

segregate the schools based on race and lack of diversity. >> i think diversity adds so many layers to a school environment from preventing issues like that from happening because you go to people who don't look like you don't talk like you. you won't go after a football game and smash watermelons because your best friend might be someone who might be really hurt by that. >> weeing tracked down the school bored chair woman to talk about diversity and the appointment of the new superintendent. >> there are charges that the process has not been conducted fairly, that at least one candidate has been given preferential treatment. what's your reaction? >> the board's made a decision, in 2007, long prior to me ever getting here that when the previous superintendent left in 2007 they said hmm we're not going to do a search, did not even do an interview.

collectively as a board we came back and said no. no person we have talked to, even other internal candidates makes us believe we shouldn't do the national search. >> how is it that in 2015, there are -- you have virtually all of the at-risk be schools the underperforming schools being the schools where the population is predominantly if not completely african-american? >> that is a very tough thing. i think nclb had a lot to do with that, no child left behind meant all you had to do was sign a piece of paper and we would get a bus and take to you a school outside your neighborhood. i think that created an incredible spiral that creates the situation where now the students are leaving. the funding negotiation with the student and you have these problems. >> many people believe the problem goes much deeper than no child left behind. 1963 the first black students integrated charleston county

schools, nine years after the supreme court declared segregated schools unconstitutional. in those years, south carolina fought the decision. in fact, flying the confederate flag over the state capitol was viewed by many white south carolinians as a feifiant response to the civil rights movement and did he segregation. after weeks of outrage to the black community in charleston following the shooting of walter scott by a white police officer ant mass shooting at emanuel a.m.e. church, ms. pugh believes it is an opportunity. >> our community coming together and mourning together and burying the dead together, now it's time to take it to another step. now it's time to really sit down with one another. it's time for our school system to look at how it's educating our youth.

>> we serve everybody in charleston county. we need to make sure that we understand what that means. >> tony harris, al jazeera. >> a small midwestern town where heroin has taken hold has she rocked by a string of unsolved deaths. the women spent time in similar circles where drugs and prostitution is common pop four bodies have turned up. police are investigating whether these a connection between the disappearance and the deaths. >> everybody has asked is there a serial killer on the loose. the best answer i have to that is the investigation so far, all the information we have doesn't point to that. we can't tie any of these to one person or persons. >> the f.b.i. is now part of the investigation. family members fear this might be the workful a serial killer. >> a cancer doctor from michigan will be sentenced for medicaid fraud. he deliberately gave chemo to

healthy patients so he could collect the insurance money. justice could not sum soon enough for the families. >> investigators call this one of the most egregious cases of medicaid fraud in history. he was a well respected oncologist. investigators say he was bilking medicare and private insurance companies of millions of dollars, giving excessive amounts of chemotherapy to some patients and giving chemotherapy to other patients who didn't even need it. >> he held himself out as the expert of all experts in this area. he convinced his patients that he was the only person who could save them. there are so many people that i have talked to who have told me that the doctor called them their miracle patient. well, of course, if you have

somebody who doesn't have cancer to begin with and you treat them with chemotherapy and then they no longer have cancer, that's not a miracle. >> despite years of fraud, it was only after a whistle blower at one of the doctor's clinics went to the f.b.i. that his scheme was uncovered. the good doctor now faces life in prison. >> on the healthbeat this morning, the f.d.a. had strength they understand its warning over the heart risk for some pain killers. labeled on advil and motrin, they will now say the drugs do actually increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. the labels uses to the drugs only could increase the risk. the f.d.a. said patients should be careful taking the drugs. >> a large study released this week finds the risk of birth defects from anti depressants is actually small. this is going to be good news for a lot of pregnant women who

need these drugs. >> there's always been the question whether there is a link between anti depressants and birth defects. conclusions from previous studies have been contradictory. this study should be conclusive because which its size and findings. >> canadian researcher it is analyzed 28,000 women who gave birth between 1907 and 2009. the study asked whether women who took anti depressants in the month before getting pregnant or the first trimester are at greater risk of having their baby suffer birth defects. the study looked at five drugs. >> of the five that were studied, three were safe with that zoloft was the drug that was used most frequently in this population, and zoloft was one of the drugs that was safe. >> the other drugs found to be

safe were celexa and lexapro. the study found the link between birth defects from pro zach and paxil. >> women should know even if they're on one of the drugs that wasn't associated with a birth defect it's still a relatively low probability. >> the study is significant because of the sheer number of americans on anti depressants. about one in 10 people take the most commonly prescribed drugs. >> this is a very reassuring article. it says that you can be treated effectively for your depression and keep your baby safe. >> researchers say women on anti depressants contemplating pregnancy or find her pregnant should talk to their doctors first. >> if a woman is taking these

drugs and finds she is pregnant, what should she do? >> she should she keep taking it even if she discovers she's pregnant and make sure she is taking the best drug. the c.d.c. said birth defects is only 3%. obviously for the 3%, it is a big problem but is a minimal risk. >> five airports in indonesia are closed because of ash from a volcano in east java. it could impact flights into and out of the country. thousands of travelers were left stranded. officials hope to open some of the airports later today. >> poachers in africa kill about 96 elephants every day. one dies every 15 minutes for its ivory. chainchina is making progress. >> china has announced they are

going to shut down the ivory trade. because they are the biggest country that gets the illegal ivory, this is huge. ivory is about 20,000 to 35,000 elephants killed every year for the tusks. conservationists say the market provides that it's legal provides cover for the illegal market. it's been hard to put some any of this down. if you look at routes from africa china gets the vast majority of this, about 70% and other countries in the region, as well. the hope is that china's statement will precipitate other countries to make similar commitments. when they did this, they crushed about 1500 pounds of ivory, kind of a symbolic gesture showing all of that. that's a look at some of that being done there. going forward it might be hard

to get the chinese market to accept all of this. people in china that can afford it 84% said they would buy ivory if they were able to. the average price runs about $100 for the poacher, $1,000 when it is sold on the market. that is a huge personal of money. it might still be hard to shut this down, but this will be a huge help. >> thank you. >> a new study said climate change is partly responsible for the disappearance of bees in parts of north america and europe. the population of wild bees has declined since the 1970's and that is when scientists say climate change began to

accelerate. bees exist nearly 200 miles further north than they did 40 years ago, according to the report, which was published in the journal science. >> getting ready for a ticker tape parade, as new york prepares to celebrate the world cup champions we look back at the storied history of those honored in the canyon of heroes. >> we hear about a new documentary that focuses on nina simone's music and her message.

>> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> the football word is mourning

former star quarterback ken stabler. he was known as the snake playing for the oakland raiders leading to a superbowl win in 1977. he was diagnosed with cancer last year. his family said his brain and spine have been donated to researchers studying concussions. >> the usa women's soccer team will go through it the canyon of heroes. the team captured a new audience with this big win. >> this is a practice session for the seattle rain, one of nine teams in the national women's soccer league. the league is averaging about 4,000 people per game. it's in its third year, but those attendance figures are skewed by what's happening in portland, where the portland thorns in a soccer mad city are drawing about 13,000 per game. ticket sales have skyrocketed

here, just gone through the roof since the u.s. women's national team won the world cup in vancouver b.c. last sunday. they are selling a lot of tickets. saturday, they hope to pack these stands and put in more than 5,000. can that world cup bump in interest and support be morn just a temporary bump? that's a big question moving forward. can this win in vancouver by the national team establish a new base line of support for and interest in women's professional soccer? >> yeah, i this i it's a huge opportunity for the league that's been all about women's soccer. a lot of free publicity for the league and players. we're hopeful. >> megan plays for the seattle rain. i asked her what players in this league have to do to keep interest high, keep up that level of enthusiasm. she said tim ply keep winning.

the u.s. national team will have another chance for another big win on an international stage next year at the olympics in rio. a good showing there maybe another gold medal will certainly generate a lot of support and keep that enthusiasm high. allen chaff leer, al jazeera seattle. >> team u.s.a. will become the first all women's team ever honored with a ticker tape parade in new york. workers prepared dozens of floats for the celebration for 129 years those parades have been one of america's ultimate rewards for a job well done. we have more. john a lot of famous people have gotten this honor. kind of surprising that an all women's team never has. >> better late than never. today that iconic route has been nicknamed honor of heroines.

>> the ultimate honor the ticker tape parade through broadway's canyon of heroes. thethe first honoree was the statue of liberty. historians agree it was 1927 celebration of charles lindbergh that perfected the art. he was the first man to fly solo across the atlantic. amelia earhart was honored in 1932 after becoming the first woman to repeat the feat. four years later jesse owens became the first individual african-american honoree. some of the most frequent guests of honors have been military heroes. a parade record 5,438 tons of

paper marked the beginning of a generation during which the parades became commonplace. of the 205 parades, 130 took place between 1945 and 1965. since then, there have been only been 24 ticker tape parades. half of those honoring championship new york sports teams, including a record nine celebration for baseball's yankees. >> now of course, the office machines that produce ticker tape are not around anymore. instead, they'll be using shredded news print donated by a brooklyn company. today's event will cost $2 million to put on, by the way. >> thank you. >> on the culture beat, a new documentary looks at the life and message of an iconic musician. ♪ >> with a booming voice and

unforgettable stage presence, nina simone's music lives on more than a decade after she died. the legend who was actually born eunice wayman was a passionate civil rights activist. her daughter wants to show what she gave up to fight for what she believed in. >> awards, being rich, so many material rewards and goals that many artists go for not to mention their own personal satisfaction. my mom forewent many of those things in order to stand up for what she believed in in terms of the civil rights movement. >> lisa kelly simone has been working on the project 10 years. the movie what happened, miss simone is in theaters now. >> we'll be back in about an hour to bring you live coverage of confederate flag coming down at the south carolina state

capitol grounds. thanks for watching. have a great morning.

>> from al jazeera headquarters in doha, this is the news hour. coming up in the next 60 minutes, cautious optimism, more queues at greek banks. row forms may just work. >> another flurry of meeting in vienna trying to work out the final sticking points on a nuclear deal with iran. >> flights canceled and thousands stranded in indonesia as mount raul rumbles