hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. retaking ramadi the large-scale iraqi offensive against the isil controlled city begins. the escape a drug cartel kingpin slips away from mexico's most secure prison. silicon shame, reddit's ceo is forced out. we'll find out about her exit and the dark side of her former company. fruit fight, our special

"techknow" report tonight. the battle over genetically modified cropped. ♪ and we begin with the iran nuclear talks. this vienna diplomats from six world powers including the united states are racing to try to wrap up an agreement. officials say a few key issues still remain. the cur rointhd of negotiations has been extended three times since the original june 30th deadline. james bays is in vienna are more. >> reporter: with the key players, all seven foreign ministers involved in the talks, all in vienna there were hopes of an historic deal on monday. >> translator: we believe they cannot be and should not be further delays in the negotiations. >> reporter: but as the intense

diplomacy continued, it was clear there were a few final sticking points still blocking a deal. away from the cameras, u.s. secretary of state john kerry and the e.u. foreign fairs chief met with the iranian foreign minister. how did it go? i tried to find out. is there a chance of a deal today representative? are you making progress? later dr. zarif came out on his own balcony. asked if there could be a deal by tuesday, he said possibly. one analyst told me everyone involved in the talks knows what is at stake if they don't manage to get a deal. >> if either party miscalculated and thinks the other side is in a position of weakness and more keen to get an agreement than -- than -- than it is i'm afraid this process can

collapse, and if that gamble fails, basically, this opportunity is lost. i don't think it can be renewed a few months down the road because not only the parties will lose momentum but a tremendous amount of trust will be lost and that's the biggest asset in the negotiations. >> reporter: for the diplomats inside, and the journalists camping outside, these have become marathon negotiations. as the day once again turns into night, a deal still has not been done, and the round the clock diplomacy continues. al jazeera's ali velshi has just returned from iron. ali, what else do we know about the details that are being discussed tonight? >> we know they spent so much time on the major issues that they didn't think they would get through, that they gave short shift to the 2007 embargo on

conventionary weaponry, the stuff of conventional war. i think everything thought we may not get to that and if we get past the nuclear stuff we'll get this done. and this has been a sticking point for the iranians. you'll remember before the revolution in 1979 iran was one of the biggest buyers of u.s. weapons in the world, the shaw loved weaponry. it helped iran during the iran iraq war, but at this point, the western powers feel there's too much of this weaponry in the region. iran is supportive of groups fighting in yemen, iraq syria, and lebanon. russia has broken apart from the p5-plus-1 on this. they would be interested in selling iran weaponry and having a strong ali in the middle east.

right now their strong ali is the syrian government. so this is causing some them problems. there are also technical issues issues we have heard even about the wording of a u.n. resolution. so it looks like they are getting to these final minutes. our forces are telling us different things every half an hour. it looks like they might have a deal, they might not have a deal, so this is what the problem is. they are getting into these final moments and then they have to get their sign ups in the u.s. and iran from higher powers. >> how closely are the iranian people watching this? >> more closely than we are, i think. their press scans a range of opinion from conservative to what they call reformists. this has been at the top of most newspapers every day with the

exception of the most conservative newspapers. there was a move on friday to have people show up -- last friday of ramadan, this past friday normally a day of protest against israel hard liners asked people to come out and protest the u.s. and what they call the imperial powers of europe and this deal. not as many showed up as they would have liked, which gives you scenes that hard liners are losing some ground in iran, and you don't know how many times in the last week and a half that i have seen reports that a deal is done inked, drafted, and ready for signatures. and it's not true. so it does seem they are cheer leading this deal. >> all right. ali thank you very much. you can watch ali velshi 10:30 eastern time, 7:30 pacific. now to iraq and the battle for ramadi seized by isil this

spring. today government forces launched a major offensive to reclaim that city and all of anbar province. it's a critical mission and one that will test baghdad's leadership and washington's support for it. jamie macintyre is in washington. jamie? >> reporter: as you said both the pentagon and the iraqi government have a lot riding on this operation, which was largely planned by u.s. advisors who were based at the air base. they came up with this two-prong plan to try to take back ramadi and orchestrate an assault on fallujah. they say the concept of operations behind this plan is to have the shia militias the popular mobilization forces engage isil forces in ramadi so that they cannot help the forces

in fallujah so they can't help the forces in ramadi. and then the major assault is being conducted by iraqi security forces as they move against ramadi against the big road that goes right into the city. one of the things the u.s. has done is advised them to encircle the city putting blocking forces to the south and west that's designed to present the isil forces from escaping to fight another day, something we have seen in the past. this was designed by u.s. military advisors and they are hoping that it's a much more deliberate and thought-out plan that the one the iraqis were first going to pursue two months ago, when they were vowing to quickly retake ramadi. >> thank you, jamie. now to mike lyons, al jazeera's national security contributor, he is in dallas tonight.

this is the third offensive in anbar, what is the objective and can it work? >> it's classic divide and conquer. the intent is to separate the two isil forces there from reinforcing each other. but it's definitely fraught with some risk that is the fact that there is still a disconnect with the arias sets that are trying to help this ground attack. there was an increase of those arias sets over the weekend. but they won't get that on demand type of support that they are going to need. the question is whether or not the shia militias will be able to infiltrate and put up a fight against isil against what is a very sunni area. >> is this a positive strategic step? >> i'm not sure that the sunni tribal fighters are engaged just yet. there has not been enough time since the pentagon announced the plan that they would be trained

there. so that really hasn't happened. so they are going under the method of hope and once the fighting starts they are betting that some of those sunni tribesmen won't be agreeing with isil, and will turn and help the shia militias. >> let's go bottom line here is this a plan that can work? >> you know, bottom line for it to work it has got to be a campaign that includes all of the military assets in really the air and on the ground and i'm not sure that they are that coordinated. and then you factor into this friction that exists between these two forces and also ga ga -- guerrilla fighting. you bring all of those together there's still a lot of risks, i'm sure the pentagon is going

to say it's going to a long time. >> we saw the rival of four f-16 jets arrive. are they going to factor into this? >> i don't think the four will have an impact right away. it will likely give the iraqi commanders some confidence that they are there. but they just haven't trained as a combined arms team like we would in the united states in how we would fight this kind of war there. so you are going to see some -- not only civilian casualties but i wouldn't be surprised if you saw some frat are side because they just don't know how to operate that kind of power. >> how do you measure success? this >> i think you will measure success if they get back

fallujah and then ramadi and then holding it. we haven't destroyed the infrastructure, and then over the horizon shut off the supply routes in order to keep them held by the iraqi government. >> all right. mike thanks very much. now to greece after coming to the brink of economic collapse, greece made a deal with its european creditors, a $96 billion bailout. but it requires major concessions that includes raising taxes, cutting pensions and submitting to tough international oversight, plus if the greek parliament says no the deal is off. jacky rowland has more from brussels. >> reporter: a deal at last. after talking that lasted all night, euro zone leaders emerged to announce that they had avoided the worst scenario. a greek exit from the euro. >> today we had only one objective, to reach an agreement

after 17 hours of negotiations we have finally reached it. someone can say that we have anning a-greekment. >> reporter: but it's no laughing matter for the greeks. they need to adopt a large package of reforms in the next two days and agree to sell off $50 billion euros of state assets. a clearly exhausted alexis tsipras tried to put the best possible gloss on it. >> translator: the deal is difficult, but we have prevented the pursuit of transfer of financial property abroad. the plan was designed up to its last detail perfectly and recently had started to be implement. finally we achieved the restructure of the debt and secured financing for the median

term. >> reporter: angela merkel was categorical that none of the debt would be written off. >> translator: this success has come in spite of the fact that in the past few weeks and months the most important currency namely trust was lost between us, but paper is patience going forward what will be important will be what we agreed on during the night. >> reporter: these were growling talks for everyone. but the process is far from over. the idea is that half of the money raised for the privatization will be used to recapitalize the greek banks. a quarter will be used to pay off the debt. and the rest will be reinvested into greece. but talks on the bailout cannot even begin until the greek parliament passes the whole package of measures into law. so the european leaders drive away into the gray light of

morning. most of them can now catch some badly needed sleep, but not the greek prime minister. for sure the night was bruising for him. and he can only expect another brucing when he returns to face the parliament and people of greece. jacky rowland, al jazeera, brussels. as we just heard the talks have ended in brussels but for families inside greece the crisis is far from over. patricia sabga has more. >> reporter: this 73 year old and his wife lost their daughter to cancer seven years ago, and then they son-in-law two years after. they have been raising their rambunctious grand sons ever since. a tough job for any grand parent, but next to impossible on a pension and benefits that add upto only $824 month. >> translator: the money is not enough. if we didn't have support from neighbors and non-profits, we

would be finished. >> reporter: lacking the funds to cover even basic necessities, they haven't paid their utility bills in six months a hand to mouth existence, and they are hardly alone. >> translator: they raised their children's children and families are destroyed. people are completely destroyed here. and now in these last five months of negotiations it's all over for us. the banks are now closed. we're in a catastrophe. >> reporter: the day-to-day political jockeying of this crisis tends to command most of the headlines, but behind the figures and exchanges, another crisis is deepening, a silent crisis engulfing more and more greek families threatening to tear apart the very fabric of this society. this is the founder of smile of the child, a non-profit that runs 14 care homes for 365 neglected and abused children in

greece as well as centers offering food, medical services and counseling to families in need. conceived by his son who designed this logo before succumbing to a brain tumor at the age of ten, smile of the child helped 82,000 children and families last year. >> the families right now are deteriorating, also there's a lot of -- lot of violence within the families a lot of domestic violence, also there are a lot of divorces so you see, there is a -- a domino situation. >> reporter: one that's now threatening this vital lifeline for greek familiar list. smile of the child is funded by donations from greeks. generosity that's become untenable in the wake of bank closures and cash rationing. >> they stopped to be able to support us so we have one week

of financial survival. >> reporter: but he is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep this safety net intact. >> we will fight for the children, fight going away going to the states begging international, doing everything we can to show our cause, to show that there is a need to survive, please support us. >> reporter: an unwavering commitment to family excooed by these people. >> translator: as long as we are standing up even if we don't have anything to eat, we will go out and do whatever it takes to raise them no matter what happens. >> reporter: this does not bring any relief to these people. they are staring down the barrel of more pension cuts and austerity, and as for organizations like smile of the child, they are very concerned about whether the people who

were giving them donations who haven't been in the position to do so during bank closures there's no guarantee that they will be able to stump up more cash to help this charity. john. >> patricia sabga reporting from athens. there's much more on this news broadcast. up next dozens of drug offenders pardoned by president obama. we'll hear from one man. and the tech ceo forced out after an avalanche of often abusive online boasts. ♪

new york city has reached an agreement with the family of eric garner who's death at the hands of police sparked nationwide protests. he died last year after a scuffle with officers. his family says an illegal choke hold killed him. a grand jury chose not to indict the officer involved. the settlement is for $5.9 million. president obama commuted the sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders today. most prisoners had been sentenced to at least 20 years, 14 were sentenced to life. the pardons are the start of a new white house push towards reforming the criminal justice

system. mr. obama will become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison this month. the granted clemency to 22 drug offenders. among those pardons with lavar wagh. ashar qureshi talked to him today. ashar? >> reporter: good evening, john. last year the department of justice announced an initiative to prioritize clemency applications for non-violent inmates. and lavar was one of those inmates. he earlier this year was granted clemency. has about two weeks left on his penance and we sat down with him. this journey began when you were convicted of possession of 50 or more grams of crack cocaine. how long ago did that happen? and do you own up to what you did? >> yes, i do.

that was about 12 years, ago and i take full responsibility. >> and you were 25 years old. >> yes. >> looking at 20 years behind bars. >> yes, i was. i had to sit down for a second to let it sink in. like man, you are doing the wrong thing. you really need to get your life together. i just don't think i needed that much time. [ laughter ] >> but you think it helped? >> to an extent. >> how did you get to the point where you thought i want to seek a presidential pardon and why did you think you had a good chance at getting one? >> well once i looked at the criteria, and i have a nice history -- a prison record of -- i went back to school. i got some college when i was in there, and i kept my nose clean. and i just figured why not. >> how did you find ut you were going to get the pardon? >> i got an email saying the president decided to change the sentence of 22 individuals

today. so i'm going through the list. and lo and behold i run across my name. >> what do you think about the president's plan to grant clemency to non-violent drug offenders? >> i think it's a good thing because as far as crack cocaine issue, i believe that is -- that that hard stance on let's get tough on crime is not working, so -- i mean it's -- for somebody to step up and actually take the initiative to do something about it is just paramount. >> do you think these mandatory minimum sentences are too hersh? in >> what you have created is a one size fit all solution to a problem that i don't even think they really understand. i mean you can't just incars rate the problem away. >> you are officially set to be released at the end of this month. there's a new life waiting for

you. what do you intend to do? >> right now i'm just trying to make sure i have the proper training to get out of here, get employed and be a productive member of society. >> and you think you can do that? >> i'm ready. >> currently under the doj guidelines some 75,000 inmates are eligible to apply for clemency, some 21,000 have done so. some are scheduled for release on july 28th the others will be scheduled for release in november. john? >> fascinating conversation asher, thanks very mump. the republican presidential field keeps getting bigger. scott walker announced his campaign today. he is the 15th high profile republican to get into the race. he presented himself as a washington outsider with big ideas about small government and a history of fighting the labor

unions. >> reporter: in front of his family and thousands of supporters today scott walker made it official. >> after a great deal of thought and a whole lot of prayer we are -- we are so honored to have you join us with here today as we official announce that we are running to serve as your president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: in mostly democratic wisconsin, walker a stanch conservative has won three statewide elections over the past five years. he has built a national conservative following, but crippling public employee unions and said his taste for big fights would lead to a smaller federal government. >> we understand that true freedom of prosperity does not come from the mighty hand of the government, they come from people controlling their own lives. >> reporter: originally from colorado walker was raised in a small wisconsin town.

he spent a few years in college, but did not graduate. after working for the red cross he entered the state legislature at age 26 and served for ten years before running and winning a race for governor. soon after taking office he passed a controversial right to work billed a mist huge protests. a judge struck down the legislation, but the state supreme court ultimately approved it. the measure was so divisive that residents collected more than a million signatures to force a gubernatorial recall election but in 2012 walker won that race and pledged to keep his union-busting efforts going. >> i'll be able to sign into law something that will make wisconsin the 25th state in the nation that says you have the freedom to work anywhere you want without having to be a part of a labor union or not. >> reporter: the win lifted his

national public profile and for the past few years even president obama has taken notice. the president travelled to wisconsin to promote worker's rights and defend overtime pay. >> america has always done better economically when we're all in it together. >> reporter: early polls show walker leading the g.o.p. field in the iowa caucuses the first republican presidential battle but he has limited foreign policy experience, and earlier this year after he explained his qualifications for taking on isil -- >> if i can take on a hundred thousand protesters can i do the same across the world >> reporter: -- rivals compared him to sarah paylin. walker insists the country is ready for somebody new. >> we need to build the economy

from the ground up in way that is new and fresh. and coming up next on this broadcast, mexico's most infamous drug lord escapes again. once condemned to die for a crime he did not commit a texas man is now on think other side of the law, seeing that no one else suffering the same injustice. ♪

hi everyone this is al jazeera america, i'm john siegenthaler. on the lose mexico's most feared drug lord breaks out of prison again. dealing a major blow to the country's president. right to serve -- >> when don't ask don't tell was repealed that people could be out and be themselves they could be honest with their units -- >> lifting the ban on

transgender troops one of the last barriers to military service is about to fall. freedom fighter -- >> that feeling of being released in 2010 was that i had work to do. >> how a former wrongly accused death row inmate is working to keep others out of prison. it was supposed to be mexico's most secure prison but it could not hold the country's most notorious drug lord. a mannone as el chapo. he is on the run tonight. the stunning prison break is the second for guzman. one of mexico's most recognizable and richest criminals. the questions go on tonight.

>> reporter: just two days after a hollywood-style prison break, this spanish blog posted photos reportedly of joaquin guzman. he escaped from prison on saturday night through an elaborate tunnel. the two foot by two foot opening lead to a tunnel a mile long that ended in this unfinished house. >> he has a team that has built over 100 tunnels between the u.s. and mexico. >> reporter: in 2001 he bribed prison officials to smuggle him out in a laundry bin. he was on the lamb for 13 years. his arrest was harolded as a significant blow to a criminal empire authorities say is proenls for nearly a quarter of

the illegal drugs that come into the u.s. through mexico. >> when there's a community in the united states where you find the presence of drugs even designer drugs, those drugs are connected to el chapo. >> he is also known as el chapo or shortly in english, refers to his stature, but not his influence. >> we don't know if guzman ever set foot in chicago, but people that were dispatched to chicago to oversee his operation, put their thumbprint on that operation. >> reporter: the chicago crime commission named him public enemy number one, the only other man to hold that title, al capone. he is wanted in the united states on drug trafficking charges, but another title, one of the most powerful and richest men in the world may keep him out of reach of law enforcement. michael vigil is the former chief of international operations for the drug enforcement administration and

the author of the book "deal," about his time working under cover for the dae. he is in washington tonight. michael how did this happen? >> well, i think this was a very planned operation by the senior cartel. it included you know, many individuals with skills in tunnel building a lot of resources, but then again, chapo guzman is one of the wealthiest men in the world. i estimate that the tunnel probably cost him about $5 million to build, but then again, that's $5 to you and i. there was obviously -- >> let me stop you there. because i mean this is out of a movie somewhere. it's even more unbelievable than a movie. it's almost as many he paid somebody to walk into that prison and take him out through the front gate.

when you say $5 million. where does that money go? >> well the money goes to the people building the tunnel. it was not only the tunnel building, but they used sophisticated technology. they were able to build a tunnel right into the shower area of his cell which undoubtedly, you know, they had really sophisticated global positioning systems to be able to do that but, you know, chapo guzman is a man who is very cunning, and he's not unlimited resources and he has used tunnels to funnel drugs into the united states. in this case he used that technology to be able to -- to escape from that maximum security penitentiary. >> explain this to me in mexico how is this seen? just as the way business is conducted in prisons? or is there real outrage?

>> well the thing is there is outrage, but keep in mind that the prison system in mexico has endemic corruption. there have been individuals that have literally walked out of the penitentiaries there, and it continues -- and i think that the mexican government has got to address and revamp their penal system because it is not working. >> the tunnel is about a mile as i understand it and there's no prison -- there's no way for the prison to detect they are drilling a tunnel underground right up to the prison? >> well, keep in mind that the tunnel was about 30 feet down into the ground. but they should have been able to detect suspicious activity

taking place at that house where they -- where they started the other tunnel and they had to move tons of earth, you know, as they were constructing the tunnel and they were within sight of prison guards so it's highly suspicious to say the least. >> yeah michael, thanks for your incite. major news out of the pentagon ash carter unveiled a plan aimed attending the ban of transgender people in the military. >> yeah, the defense secretary called this ban dated and distracting. lifting it will remove one of the last hurdles to military service by allowing transgender people to serve openly. >> i have been in the military you know close to 15 years now. and i have been transgender my whole life. >> reporter: army major jamie henry kept her identity hidden

for 15 years. she enlisted as a man, but inside she knew she was a woman. does this feel natural for you? >> it does. >> reporter: but she didn't dare reveal this secret to anyone in the military. >> just even mentioning this to anyone, i could lose my job. i wanted to serve my country. i wanted to deploy. i have been in since i was 17. this is my chosen profession. i want to serve. >> reporter: now that fear may be fading for the thousands serving in the shadows. in a statement monday defense secretary ash carter called the ban outdated and confusing, signalling it's time for it tend to. he said: the secretary ordered a six-month review period to figure out issues like housing, showers, and medical coverage.

and made it harder for transgender people to be discharged. even after the fall of don't ask don't tell the military has considered transgenderism as a psychosexual condition, even though the american medical association said there was no valid reason to exclude transgender people. a ucla report estimates more than 15,000 transgender people are serving in the military. that would make it the largest employer of transgender people in the u.s. >> would mean a lot of the same things that it meant to lesbians and gays when don't ask don't tell was repealed. >> reporter: a future major jamie henry looks forward to without fear of being discharged. >> i'm like oh my god, they might be accepting transgender

service members. and i'm like i can have my career back. like that -- that is incredible to me. >> reporter: now transgender people cannot join the military during this six-month transition period, and still a lot of issues have to be worked out, such as housing, uniforms and whether the military should pay for transgender surgeries. anthony graves is a former prison who spent more than a decade on death row before being exonerated, now he says he has found his calling. >> reporter: 18 years in prison 12 of them on texas death row -- >> 6,640 days, two execution dates, but i'm here. >> reporter: anthony gaveses is

now a free man. >> i just do it for justice. i stand for fairness. i am just there for a system that is fair to all of us. >> reporter: the system failed graves in 1994 when he was convicted of murdering six members of one family. >> what linked you to the crime? >> nothing. absolutely nothing. >> reporter: nothing but the accusation of a co-defendant who said graves aided in the murders. that man would recant on the eve of his own execution, saying graves was innocent. and the former da who prosecuted graves was disbarred for using false testimony and hiding evidence that could have helped graves. >> i was wrongfully convicted because a prosecutor decided to cut corners, and so because he cut corners, i wasn't able to receive a full measure of

justice. >> reporter: it took nearly two decades for the state to declare not one piece of credible evidence linked graves to the crime. >> that feeling of being released in 2010 was that i had work to do. that's what the feeling was. i had work to do. i had to let people know what -- what i had went through, and what i have learned from going through it you know, about our criminal justice system. >> reporter: this is what he is doing now. last month the mayor of houston appointed graves to the board of directors, also on the board, the lawyer and journalism professor who fought eight years for graves release. >> he reminds us that if the forensic science center does provide quality accurate science that these results are used in court, and they could result in

a tragedy for another innocent person. >> reporter: graves joined the recently established forensic science center which replaces the houston crime lab where testing was temporarily suspended in 2002 because of mismanagement problems and last year a worker's misconduct lead to the review of 185 cases. the new center is a fresh start, and one of kind in the country. it's a non-profit corporation set up by the city and answers to a board of citizens that now includes graves. >> being an independent agency it is not persuaded by the prosecutor to produce certain results. they can produce the actual facts with no pressure because they are independent, big difference. >> reporter: graves says he has put away albeiterness for the years he lost. >> i put it away in my mind so i could live today.

those thoughts imprison a person, and that's not where i want to be. i don't want to be in prison anymore than the 18.5 years i had to be there. >> reporter: during your 18 years in that prison cell could you have imagined that one day you would be out here doing this? >> it's funny, because i imagined that for many nights. it kind of kept me motivated. >> reporter: now he's thinking of the others behind bars who may also have been denied justice. >> reporter: a lot of guys are going to be happy for this especially those that claimed their innocents, and that are innocent. >> reporter: now graves may be the ear that listens. heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, houston. now to reddit it's one of the most popular and controversial websites filled with message boards on all kinds of topics. it has some 160 million useders.

it has a feature called ama, that stands for ask me anything. reddit is now under fire. its chief executive resigned after only eight months on the job, unclear why she stepped down, but she vuz vilified in recent weeks by reddit members online. powell made headlines not too long ago when she lost a gender discrimination suit against her previous silicon valley employer. this story has people talking about the dark side of social media and the way she was treated. we are joined by the cofounder of change the ratio which aims to increase opportunities for women in tech. welcome back. >> thank you for having me. >> what is the problem with reddit in your opinion? >> reddit is an expansive site.

there's a lot of good about it. but it is largely unregulated. it is meant to sort of foster free speech -- >> anonymous? >> of course. there's a lot of anonymity there, and there's a lot of sort of hateful, controversial, sub reddits they are called and threads that have been problematic to say the least in the past. >> when you say hateful -- >> racist. holm phobic. >> anonymous people >> right. >> some might call cowards. >> some might. >> who put this stuff up and their focus on ellen powell. >> exactly. she was the interim ceo, never named to be ceo officially. so she came on to oversee credit which, again, it sources many of the stories that you

see, but it was also the locus of let's say where the celebrity-leaked photos -- the nude photos were -- you know they were slow to take them down off of reddit that sort of things. one of the things that ellen powell did was to shut down a somebody of these more controversial sub reddits that were racist or just hateful. there was one that was all about shaming fat people. and the way it was done because these sub reddits are monitored by users, there was an outcry by the users. >> so it seems that maybe she was thrown out because a lot of reddit's users were mad at her? >> well there was a lot of drama that unfolded. a very popular moderator was fired -- >> and then they brought her

back is that right? >> not to my knowledge, but it could happen. >> right. >> the -- so it was -- the problem was that the uproar around the -- the change in the sub reddits, and then the firing of victoria taylor resulted in a massive tsunami of hate directed toward powell. sam altman of the reddit board issued a statement saying it was by mutual agreement -- >> you laugh when you say that a little bit. >> well because it certainly seems like all of the -- the -- you know the deck was stacked against her. and here is the problem. it's very difficult when you are dealing specifically with a lightning rod like ellen powell has been inside a community where there is such a vocally

misogynistic faction against her. it's hard to say this would have happened the same if it were a man. and the previous ceo of reddit was brought back and he's not an interim ceo, he is just a plain old ceo, and he has said he is going to tow the same line that ellen powell did, and it's just -- the whole thing is kind of like a drama, and it's -- but when you take a step back and you look at it what you see is once again a female ceo giving a shorter leash, and being forced out under a sort of misogynistic circumstance. >> rachel thanks very much. coming up next sounding the alarm about genetically modified food we're going to hear from one scientist who says the fear is unfounded.

>> you have to taste

we turn now to india and an controversial education system. >> islamic schools is heating up in india. the government in one area has

taken away the recognition of these schools as institutes. they say they are so focused on religious education they aren't teaching the things taught in regular schools, and that is leading them to being unequipped for jobs. >> antonio thank you. we turn now to the fight over genetically modified foods. scientists say there are big benefits, still many consumers and advocacy groups remain fearful. should they be? techno's correspondent is at the technostudios. >> hey, john this really is the next generation of genetically modified foods. apples that don't turn brown when you slice into them. oranges and tomatoes and

strawberries that are engineered to be resistant to disease, and we got a rare inside look at a university research facility that is doing this biotech work and a scientist who does it under immense pressure. ♪ genetically modified foods. a subject that inspires controversy and fear. but one scientist is fighting back trying to debunk one myth at a time. >> i should have punched you in the blank face when i had the chance. if i come to florida, i will make you and your family drink roundup, stay the -- out of florida. i hope you and your family get brain cancer so you can see what it is like. sweet people. >> where does this anger come from? >> i think the idea is to intimidate me.

>> hum. this man knows a thing or two about what exactly goes into genetically modified crops. he is the head of horticulture sciences at the university of florida. he is proud of the work but also protective. he asked us not to disclose the location of these fields for fear that anti-gmo activists would try to destroy them. >> people get excited about technology when it's in their phone or their car, so why is it so weird on their plate. >> reporter: after 18 years of testing, this apple got the stamp of approval from the fda, usda and epa. are these apples safe to eat? >> yes. they have been rigorously tested by the fda really to a fault. >> reporter: it was created by

engineering its own dna. by silencing or turning off genes that control production of ppo, scientists have created a non-browning apple. sounds like a neat party trick, but it could also help reduce food waste. but will consumers bite? we wanted to see what people know and feel about gmo's. if i sent these strawberries home with you, would you eat them? >> yeah. >> what if i told you they were gmo strawberries? would you eat them? >> it sounds freaky. >> what do you know about gmo's. i know organic is best. but i don't know a ton about gmo's to be honest. >> that's what we hear from so many mothers. i worry about the health of my child. that's a common concern. but do you know how many people have been sick or died from

gom's? >> no. >> how would you feel if it was zero? >> a lot more comfortable. >> that's good. these gmo's are really on the cutting edge. they are the future and they are potentially going to be less frightening for consumers. there are, you know, strawberries that use strawberry genes. tomatoes that use spinach genes and oranges that use genes from other citrus fruits. this could be the beginning of a shift of consumer appreciation of these new crops. >> so when can i buy that app until the store? >> well the first groves are being mrakted here in america right now. so we're looking at about 2016 date for them to be available. >> and the apple -- i mean the strawberries when -- what is the hold up there? >> as is the case with a lot of these fruits and vegetables that

are grown by university researchers, there is simply not enough time or money to fund the process of deregulation. it has to go through the epa, fda, and usda. >> that's our broadcast thanks for watching.

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