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situation. ali. >> that's our show for today i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. >> working late into the night - negotiators in vienna try to hammer out the vinyl details of a nuclear agreement with iran angry protests in athens after the long and contentious talks result in a rescue deal for greece. the u.s. military to lift a ban on transgender serve in nine form. >> if you breathed a word you
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could lose your career. and social security. >> we have to keep social security strong the challenging future facing social security and medicare good evening, i'm antonio mora and this is al jazeera america. it's after 5am in austria where talks in relation to the iran nuclear deal went into the night. the current agreement has been extended three times. the sides are at odds over key issues including an arms embargo on iran. as james bays reports, it could end 18 months of tough diplomacy. >> with the key players, all seven foreign ministers involved in the talks, all in vienna, there was hopes of an historic deal on monday. >> we believe they cannot be and
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should not be further delays in the negotiations. as the intense diplomacy continued, it was clear there was a few final sticking points blocking the deal. away from the cameras there was meetings with the iranian foreign visitor. how is it it go - we try to find out. >> instead an of chance of a deal, are you making progress. >> later the doctor came out on his own balcony at this 5-star hotel. a former palace asked if there could be a deal by tuesday, he said possibly. an analyst told me everyone involved in the talks nose what is at stake if they don't get a deal. >> if either party miscalculates
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and thinks the other side is in a position of weakness and more keen to get an agreement than it is, that process can collapse and if that gamble fails, the tooupty is lost i don't think it can be renewed a few months down the road. not only will the parties lose momentum, a tremendous amount of trust will be lost. >> for the diplomats inside the hotel and journalists outside. these are marathon negotiations. as the day turns to night, a deal has not been done and the round the clock diplomacy continues a group of americans protested outside the hotel where the talks are being held. they say they will not accept a
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deal with iran unless it fully dismantles its iranian programme. joe, former aid to president bush joins us. if a deal is reached, congress has 60 days to debate if if it follows what was this the framework agreement, what will happen on capitol hill? >> it's going to be hard. you have the republicans in the house of senate against the detail, and diplomats - it the president is counting on the democrats, many will feel we have gone backgrounds. >> senator mitch mcconnell said it will be a tough sell leaving iran as a nuclear threshold state. that is what binyamin netanyahu has been complaining about. if iran slows down the process, and there's a tough reg. why is that a problem for the
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republicans to support? >> not just republicans, but departments departmentsly senator as well. these talks are supposed to be about making sure iran never had nuclear capability now it looks like they'll have everything they wanted we'll have nothing we wanted and now it looks like the embargo will be lifted as well. that was a line in the sand drawn by iran. that will make it very very hard. senate republicans will say why are we doing this. >> let's talk about with a couple of those things. it 150 democratic congress men supported the president in a letter. if congress relates it by a majority. they been veto the vote.
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it is not going to be overridden. it would make it almost impossible. >> senate - i mean republicans and house republicans will be working hard to make sure they are getting their message out and making sure americans - it's not a partisan message about the president. we have to make sure we protect america's best interests, and are the interests protected if iran had access to nuclear weapons, and are interests protected if we lift the embarringo, the arms embargo. >> if lifting the embargo, is that an onstarta no matter what. even if iran is meeting certain obligations. >> i think so. at the end of the day it's a huge non-starter. republicans, and the democrats that agree with them will make a lot of noise.
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>> there has been a bipartisan group supporting what was in the framework deal. could there not be public pressure to move ahead and approve this. >> i think what those opposing the deal will do is making sure americans know the fine print. the devil is in the detail. >> good to have your perspective on these things. appreciate you joining us. >> in israel binyamin netanyahu launched a twitter account in farsi to reach out to people in iran. in his first tweet binyamin netanyahu condemned iran's leaders to allow public rallies featuring negative chance. he says they are reason enough to halt negotiations. >> the farcy account will public accounts similar. >> long and torturous negotiations finally produced a deal this morning. eurozone will provide grease
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with 96 billion over the next few years. in change. prime minister alexis tsipras agreed to enact austerity measures many greeks reacted with dismay at the terms. >> translation: alexis tsipras and his government betrayed the greek people. he asked a question. the greeks answered, we have a betrayal. it's almost a coup. >> reporter: it's not a done deal the greek government have until wednesday. we have reaction from the streets of athens. >> the debt deal may be done, but there's certainly no surplus of relief at least not yet. this is the worst day i have had in 30 years, he tells me. for decades he sold lottery tickets, whilst staring out at the scare.
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>> he says now things have changed. there's no justice. these days life in grease has turned into one big, bad bet. the big fish eats the small fish. alexis tsipras went to stand up to angela merkel. with germany, it's not possible. lee like others thought austerity is off the table for good. it is more reliable than the german government. >> the sentiment, that germany was hauling greece over the cools echos throughout the square. >> we have to make a plan and leave in schauble with his euro with his money.
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>> not all pointed the finger of blame in an outward direction. this man believes the previous finance minister had more to do with the crisis. >> the man was a bit of a gamer. it is risky. in a game of poker you may lose. dollars, euros. in a country you may lose more than that. a helly dose of scept six permeate the region. >> many feel the existence is little more than a number's game. despite the deal here outside parliament, there's a sense of stays sis. it's a greek word meaning stagg
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in my submission. people feel stuck. worried that their fate is tied to forces out of their control. with life on the luck of the draw than ever before. >> reporter: new f-16 fighter jets arrived in iraq landing north of baghdad. delivery of the jet fighters have been delayed by concerns over security. they should fly sorties against i.s.i.l. positions within days. >> on monday, iraq's military launched an offensive to reclaim the largest province against i.s.i.s. control. the fall of anbar was crucial to i.s.i.l.'s rise, and the new campaign will be a test to iraqi forces. >> the announcement came earlier on sunday security forces were
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beginning a new operation to defeat i.s.i.l. fighters. >> translation: the military operation to retake anbar started at 5 o'clock. along with special forces federal police and others. they are waging battles to advance towards the target. >> military provisions have been continuing in anbar, but are concentrated on the main city of ramadi. tens of thousands of troops are used on the offensive. 5,000 within anbar. the operation about focus on liberating fallujah. by retaking fallujah, they hope to put in a cut-off. >> iraqs has a real challenge on
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its hands to defeat i.s.i.l. it does not involve pro-government fighters. the army has control over some units. militia run individual militias. there's half-a-dozen big ones and a couple of dozen small ones. the federal government is trying to make the best it can of a disorganised situation. >> the iraqi air force is involved in the new offensive. >> an iraqi air force has been given a boost. it received the first four of a consign. of f-16 aircraft from the u.s. they arrived at the air base. the iraqi air force will be hoping they'll deliver a decisive blow to i.s.i.l. fighters. in anbar, they have sympathy from some of the sunni tribes.
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because of that they prove to be a tough fighting force. >> nearly 15,000 civilians were killed in iraq over a 16 month period according to a new report from the u.n. human rights office. 30,000 civilians have been wounded and 3 million iraqis fled their homes because of the fighting. the report sites gross human right abuses like i.s.i.l. possibly genocide the pentagon is set to lift the ban against transgender people serving in the military. defense secretary ash carter issued a direction ordering a 6-month study into the details of allowing transgender people to serve openly. carter said we must be sure:
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the decision was unanimous. the boy scouts voited to end a ban rock voted to end a ban on gay adult leaders, allowing individual units to choose. the policy needs conclusion by the executive board to be decided in two weeks. a man hunt is under way for the world's most wanted drug smuggler. >> he's been notorious for the use of drug smugglers. they have built over 100 tonnens from mexico coming up the tunnel used by the mexican king ping, known ag el chapo and why the movie style gaol break has donald trump calling in the federal bureau of investigation and a former death row in mate keeps others going to prison for crimes they did not commit.
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. >> my record shows i know how to fight and win.
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now more than ever america needs a president who will fight and win for america. >> wisconsin governor scott walker became the 15th prominent republican to enter the presidential race. he spoke to supporters about his experience fighting unions and his plan tore education and election reform walker is entering the field late, he's at the lead in several opinion polls in the sit of iowa. we have learnt about the escape of notorious mexican drug lord known as el chapo, he fled. knit a monitoring bracelet. they added that the drug king pin likely escape the with the help of prison employees. official toured the building where the convict emerged from a hole in the ground after making
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his escape. a breakout that the d.e.a. knew was in the planning stages. >> reporter: two days after a hollywood-style prison break, this spanish block posted feats, purportedly of the joaquin guzman enjoying a new-found freedom. mexico's notorious drug lord escaped this prison saturday night through a tunnel accessed from the shower in his sell. the 2 foot by 2 foot opening led to a tunnel a mile long ending in an unfinished,000 outside a nearby town. >> he's been notorious in the use of tunnels. it's a team of engineers and minors, building over 100 tunnels between the west of mexico. >> this is the second time joaquin guzman escaped. in 2001 he bribed prison official for smuggling him out. he was on the run for 13 years, his arrest heralded as a blow to
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a criminal empire authorities say is responsible for a quarter of illegal drugs coming into the u.s. from mexico. >> where there's a community where you find the presence of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana, they are not directed to el chapo. >> joaquin guzman or shorty in english, refers to his stature, not his influence. >> we don't know if joaquin guzman stepped foot in the city of chicago. people that were dispatched to chicago. to oversee his operation put their thumb print on that operation. >> the chicago crime commission named him public enemy number one. the only other man to hold that title, al capone. >> joaquin guzman one of most powerful and richest men in the world, may keep him out of reach
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of law endorsement. >> joaquin guzman is wasting no time retaliating against those that maligned him. a twitter feed threatened to make donald trump eat his words after the presidential candidate tweeted a promise to kick his butt. mexican's president called him a delink wept. >> a a former criminal exxon rate spent many years on death row after 18 years in prison 12 on texas death row. >> 6,640 days, two execution dates. but i'm here. >> anthony is now a free man, exxon rated, and trying to see that no one else is wrongly convicted. it was a system that failed graves in 1994, when he was convicted of murdering six
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members of one family. >> reporter: what linked you to the crime? >> the same thing that could have linked you - nothing. absolutely nothing. >> reporter: a man recanned on the eve of his own execution, saying that graves was innocent. the former da who prosecuted graves was dispared for using false testimony and hiding evidence that could have helped graves. >> i was convicted because a prosecutor decided to cut corners. >> it took nearly two decades for the state to declare not one piece of evidence linked greyed to the crime. >> the feeling was it had work to do. i had work to do. i have to let people know what i went through, and what i learnt from going through it about our
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drl justice system. >> that's what he's doing now. last month the mayor of houston appointed gray to the houston science center board of directors. also on the board the professor who fought for eight years for graves' release. >> he reminds us that if the forensic science centre doesn't provide quality accurate science, that the results are used in court and could result in a tragedy for another innocent person. >> graves joined an established forensic skins center replacing the scandal-ridden crime lad. >> it's a fresh start. a nonprofit organization set up by the city an own to a bored of citizens including graves. >> it's not persuaded by the particular to produce results.
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they can produce facts. >> now he's thinking of others behind bars who may have been denied justice. >> the f.b.i. says a break down in paperwork is to blame tore the suspect in the south carolina church shooting being able to boy a gun. officials said a gail clerk made a mistake when entering information about a drug arrest. mistakes discovered two days after dylann roof's arrest. he bought a 45 caliper handgun, used to gun down nine people. >> questions about the future of social security and medicare coming up. what it will take to keep the programs solvent into the future. 10 years ago the new horizon spacecraft set out to go where no ship went before. >> hours before a rendezvous
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off of n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft more than nine years after it blasted into outer space, n.a.s.a.'s new horizon spacecraft is about to get the money shot. it'sate hours away -- it'sate hours away flying by pluto. it will complete a mission to photograph every planet in the solar system. we speak with the space commander tomorrow. the white house hosted a sixth conference on ageing it happens once a decade, as patty culhane reports, one of the biggest issues is practically ignored. >> reporter: talk to anyone on the college campus about the state retirement fund in the united states, you'll hear this. >> i think it's a failing system. i think growing up that's what they told us that we weren't going to get social security by
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the time we retire. >> reporter: there's a good reason for the pessimism, government programs to help the elderly are running out of money. social security - that will run out of money in 2033, and medicare a programme providing health insurance for the elderly will run out of cash in 2030. president obama convened a once in a decade conference on age of course, he said the programs were not in crisis. >> we have to keep social security strong. protecting from solvency. i think there are creative ways for people to talk about protecting solvency and strengthen retirement and security. >> many believe the solution is raising a retirement age to 70 years old. that would be politically
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damaging. >> when it is enough of a crisis we'll make the change. instead of telling people over the age of 50 we are not raising the retirement for you, we may have to raze it to everyone. if americans want a peak they expect the president to promise too much and not cost them any money, look at greece. >> a calming conviction for the young and old. a fear that will have to wait before we go a cincinnati thriller in tonight's annual home-run derby. >> that one is going to land in the see. unbelievable unbelievable. >> the red's home-town hero edges out jock peater son, hitting 15 home runs in the final. each had four minutes instead of five. i'm antonio mora thank you for joining us. for the latest news any time
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head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story". [ ♪♪ ] the break government just agreed to the kind of bailout deal it came to power promising never to accept. the increasingly beleaguered greek people voted against austerity next week to have their government staring into the abyss, for years more of economic pain. baling out greece -