t we do... don't try this at home! >> tech know where technology meets humanity... only on al jazeera america >> hello, everybody, and weapon to aljazeera america. live from new york city, i'm david schuster. ahead, an agreement head by john kerry reached a deal with iran today to limit that country's nuclear program. today, we'll look at the fine print on what that means for iran and the u.s. and plus, global reaction from tough economic sanctions and

the intense opposition. america's closest middle east ally, israel is condemning the accord, along with saudi arabia and most republicans in congress. you'll hear from them directly as to why they feel the deal is dangerous, and potentially a historic mistake. we begin this hour with the landmark international deal to limit iran's fuk lar program. deal is welcomed to block iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon. and in the long run, it could reshape regulations between iran and the west. or reaction from the white house and congress, and reaction from israel. and vienna on how negotiators bridged their differences. starting with a closer look at the accord, calls for iran's

centrifuges, down to 3,000 and iran is supposed to reduce it's stockpiles of uranium a crucial weapon component. and monitoring and examining sites, including military facilities. and in exchange, the world will lift sanctions on iran, but only after they have been verified that iran has taken steps to comply with the agreement. and the embargo of conventional weapons will remain for five years with the embargo on missiles in place for eight. white house officials said that president obama will hold a news conference tomorrow to answer questions about the deal. break through with iran, for better or for work is a legacy defining moment for the president. and jamie mcintyre joins us from washington. >> well, david, this has been a long road to this agreement.

the negotiations were 18 days in vienna, very intense. the real zogs started in earnest about 18 months ago and for the united states, it has been 35 years since it has had any real engagement with iran. president obama hailed the agreement as a triumph of diplomacy in remarks carried on iranian television. >> tough talk does not solve problems. hard nosed diplomacy and leadership that has united the world's powers, has a better way to verify that iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. >> iranian president, are a hanni, waited until president obama stopped speaking before taking to the airwaves himself telling the iranian people that the deal marked a new chapter in iran's relations not just

with the u.s., but with the world. >> the relations between us today has a new beginning. we would like more unity brotherhood, and extended relations with you. >> for almost a decade, on and off again talks sputtered along. the u.s. feared that iran was close to building a bomb, while tehran insisted that it's nuclear program was for peaceful generation. a breakthrough came two years ago when rouhani was declared president and declared that he was ready to compromise. president obama talked with him by phone the first to level exchange since the hostage crisis in the iranian revolution in 1979. but the u.s. said that president obama should sees the opportunity to move in a new direction, he harbored no illusions with a country that he called a sworn adversary with the united states for over 35 years. >> that means that this deal is

not based on trust. it's built on verification. inspectors will have 24-7 access to iran's key facilities. >> and john kerry the primary architect of the deal said that iran doesn't get anything until it shows that it's living up to its word. >> that's why one of the sanction that's we currently have in place will be lifted until iran implements the commitments that it has made. in some restrictions, those for arms and proliferation will remain in place for some years to come. >> there are many aspects to this agreement. but much changes on the idea of these unfetred inspections to iran's suspected and declared nuclear sites so-called anytime, anywhere inspections. that got watered down in the final deal, so there's now a process where they can challenge the arbitration where the iae would have access, and

that's a process that could play out over 24 hours and the critics, 24 days does not sound to them like anywhere, anytime. >> jamie mcintyre, thank you thank you. >> aljazeera's editor, james bays is there. and you've been covering every step of these negotiations for months, and every hour in the last 18 days in vienna. were you surprised at the end that they reached a deal? >> i think all along our feeling had been that they so wanted a deal. that this was in many ways too big to fail. but having said that, they went around-the-clock, and there were meetings early in the morning. and at one point it got extended and extended and there might be sticking points that they might not be able to get past. in the end, in the hotel behind

me they managed to come to a deal. the iranian foreign minister said that it was not a perfect dealle but it was the best that they could reach. but the arts you know are going to be picked up by the critics and i suspect those last bits that they had to compromise on are the ones that are goal be the most controversial for those who believe that no deal should have been done with iran. >> one the sticking points, involving iran's assistance that the conventional arms embargo would be lifted. and in the end iran will have that in place for another five years, and eight years when it comes to missiles, and that seems like a pretty good deal for the west. >> it is something new something never done before. so you have the iaea, which has never been in place before. which does the inspections for the u.n., the police force, and then uh the connection of these countries, which are going to act as the judge and the jury,

deciding whether the iaea has found is actually a breach or just a misunderstanding. so it is something new and something important. and i think what many of those who have done the deal here would say to you, this is the best they could get. it's a snapback procedure. if you didn't have this, you could get from iran, the security council, from my point, and i spend most of my time at the united nations. and it's unlikely because you have to look at how the russian position has changed on sanctions in the last couple of years. partly because of syria and the russian government of president putin protecting the assad government. and changing more because russia is subject to sanctions and it's a dirty word with the russians. so something that you would never get the international agreement for sanctions that

you had in the past against iran, so the best they could do is this snapback idea. >> james bays, thank you. and israel, which is america's closest ally in the middle east, a nation that iran has vowed to destroy the reaction has been harsh. benjamin netanyahu called it a stunning historic mistake, and said that his nation is not bound by the accord. on the streets of jerusalem that sentiment is growing. >> hours before iran's nuclear deal with iran was announced benjamin netanyahu made a televised statement denouncing the agreement. >> this is a bad mistake of historic proportions. >> and his criticisms were even more pointed. >> the world is a much more dangerous place today than it

was yesterday. >> netanyahu is under increasing pressure by opposition politicians at home, who blame him for failing to prevent the deal. they accuse the prime minister of straining ties with u.s. president, barack obama which they say harmed the ability to influence the outcome. >> obama would not be the president, nobody knows who is going to be the president and they will face each other in this period of time. [ unintelligible ] if iran tries to go nuclear, we don't know. >> in west jerusalem israelis were nearly universal in their criticism of the nuclear deal. >> now they're going to get all of this money and front even more terrorism. and it has made everything so bad. >> iran, just like north korea can not be trusted. and i hope that the u.s. congress, the house of

representatives, and the senate, will go over this agreement very carefully. >> the united states congress has 60 days to review the agreement. netanyahu will likely use that time to pressure his political allies in the republican and democratic parties to reject it. but president obama has already said he would veto any bill that would block the deal. >> the global powers has achieved a rare show of political consensus here in israel. politicians from across the spectrum have criticized the deal, saying that any kind of iranian nuclear program poses an existential treatment but with little to hold, there's very little they can do about it. aljazeera, weftage gerb. >>west jerusalem.>> in washington, lawmakers will have 60 days to debate the nuclear deal.

if congress tries to derail it, through a bill keeping iranian sanctions, the president has promised to veto. and the question is whether he can sustain his veto. lisa is there where the fight has already begun. >> it has indeed. there's a chorus of criticism on capitol hill, mainly from republicans, but democrats as well. some worry that the president may have given away too and there's concern that he didn't meet the goals that he set out to meet. here's senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. >> remember, ending iran's nuclear program was supposed to be the talks in the first place. and what's about the disagreement, it will not achieve or even come close to achieving that original purpose. >> now one of the concerns on

both sides of the aisle is whether this agreement is verifiable. a way that the international community can truly know if iran was cheating on that deal? the details are in the complex agreement. and the leader of the democrats on the senate side, harry reid, he urged lawmakers to really take a look at this deal before they react. >> the document is 100 pages long and my staff hasn't read it and i haven't read it. and i talked to the pretty last night. and what i'm going to do and i recommend to all senators, let's find out what we have first. i have a broad outline of the agreement. and i want to know what is going to transpire with hearings that the republicans say they're going to hold, and we'll have briefs in the white house that will be extensive in nature. so wait and see. >> wait and see. the white house has offered extensive briefs to lawmakers on the exact details of this

deal. and that push actually begins tomorrow morning. vice president biden will head up to the hill. and david, he'll be meeting with democrats on the house side. >> so lisa, how much power does the congress have in terms of this deal? >> really, they have limited power. this is a treaty that would require 2/3 of congress to put it into effect, so the president can move forward on his own. but the white house and congress breed that the president will have the chance to review it, and they can vote up or down or not at all. and they hold the power of the purse. they say if we disapprove this deal, and you can not release the sanctions on iran as you've said the president has promised to veto that if it comes to that. >> . >> lisa stark, thank you very much. and now ramadi, the president of the american iranian council, and he ran in the last

election. what's your reaction to this? >> i'm obviously happy that something has happened in the election, but at the same time, i'm concerned as we move forward. because lots of obstacles are in the way toward implementation. >> like what obstacles? >> well, first the deal itself. i was just reading, for example, it says anytime necessity. i don't understand what that is and who is going to decide what is necessity? >> well, they have an arbitration panel. >> but the problem is, that kind of language is really troubling. i think just because they could not reach the right decision on that, they just made this

vague. >> well, you know iran very well. and on that point, let's suppose that the iaea inspectors say went to go to this particular site and iran says we don't want to let you there. and it goes to an arbitration panel and the arbitration says that you have to let the inspectors in. is that something that iran would accept? >> i don't think so. that's what they're saying. the word necessity means no. there will not be an inspection of the iranian military site. and i say now very loudly, that that necessity does not include military sites because they are not going to be inspected. >> and yet the agreement says that if this arbitration panel indicates that yes, they have to be inspected iran has to follow them. >> yes but again that's where the language is. the problem is the vagueness of the language. let me tell you another issue

for example, on the sanctions there's a lot of talk about the sanction relief in the text, and then there's one footnote that will say all of this would only lead to secondary sanctions related to the nuclear. and yet in the text, it talks a lot about how much iran gets in the way of sanctions relief from the united states. but that very statement, that footnote you know -- >> are you in favor of the full-fledged congressional hearings that are coming from washington? >> i'm almost certain that the congress would first disapprove and it would be vetoed, but i don't think that they can sustain you know, that disapproval. so the president would succeed at the end but then again this would mean that this would be president obama's deal, as opposed to the u.s. deal, and

that's exactly what the republicans want. they want this deal to be democratic policy, so then they can use it in this election, and win the next presidency. >> that's a very astute analysis of u.s. politics, and it also remains to be seen what the next president will do, if it's republican, if they can accept this. from the american iranian council, thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> just ahead we'll have more on the u.s.-led deal to try to curb iran's nuclear program. and inside of the deal, that's at 9 p.m., 6 p.m. pacific. closing arts have begun in the murder trial for james holmes. he killed 12 people in a colorado movie theater and the jury is being asked to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. and criminal justice reform, a sentence reduced on

non-violent offenders. and then he might get republican help.

>> president obama at the group's annual convention, and he laid out the criminal justice system, and reduced the sentences of 46 convicts who committed non-violent crimes. >> our nation is being robbed of men and women who could be workers and taxpayers and more actively involved in their children's lives could be role models and could be community leaders, and right now they're locked up for a non-violent offense. >> michael shore covered the speech today and joins us live from philadelphia. an empty ballroom. but what was the reaction earlier today to the president's speech? >> yeah, david, a lot of people were high about this speech. people didn't know what to expect out of the president only that he would be talking about an issue that's really

close to their hearts here at the naacp. of course you mentioned that the president did commute 46 sentences yesterday. and he's headed to oklahoma to visit a prison. but they wanted to make sure that these are not issues that just affected african-americans. >> just the fact that the president is taking notice of these things. a lot of these issues got tossed aside. in general our people don't care about -- for him to be the leader of our country and taking notice of these issues going on not only in the black community, but the latino community and even the caucasian community. it means a lot when the leader of the country is coming out and voicing his opinion. >> david, when you hear that, you hear that the youth -- the naacp is not about youth. it's an older crowd here, but young people were energized by what they heard.

and this is about building consensus when it goes to country and around the country david. you heard people talking about the strange bed fellows that the president mentioned. that the coke brothers and the naacp were together on this issue. even patrick leahy in vermont and charles grassy gave opinions on this. and that's a lot of what the president was trying to tap into. >> republican groups, like the coke brothers, supporting the idea of lowering incarceration rates, where is this heading in your opinion? >> like everything, it has to get to congress, and congress has to get to the white house. but i think that the president on every issue when you have these republicans you do have people like newt gingrich and

van jones, and you have the aclu working on issues like this. $80 billion is the amount that this high level of incarceration is costing americans. he said that that could pay for free kindergarten for all three and four-year-olds in the country, and double the salaries of every single high school teacher. he's serious about that, and when republicans democrats hear about that, and it saves communities and dollars they're in the same boat. >> thank you. here in new york, the family of an unarmed man who died after he was put in a police chokehold has agreed to a settlement $5.6 million. eric garner was killed months ago, and new york has refused to inbe indict any of the

officers involved. it has led to a national case. and garner's family wants them to file criminal charges. >> they treated my husband like an animal. >> this it settlement that we did. people going up and down the street are giving congratulations. don't congratulate us. this is not a victory. the victory will come when we get justice. >> the family is expected to join protesters outside of the district attorney's office in brooklyn to call for federal rights charges to be brought in the eric garner case. in closing architects today, underway in the case of movie theater shooter james holmes. three years ago he killed 12 people and injured 70 others. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. paul is in centennial, colorado, and paul, what did the jury hear today about mr. holmes? >> well, david today was the day for closing arts after

almost 11 weeks of trial. thousands of pieces of evidence, and hours and hours of evidence from witnesses and survivors. today was the closing arts for the prosecution and the defense, and the defense just wrapped up moments ago. there's going to be po minutes now of prosecution rebuttal to the closing arguments and that's going to happen after a short break. but it's going to be a very long day. but it started with a whole morning of instructions from the judge. the judge explained to them how they needed to evaluate the evidence and proceed. and even how they should fill out a sample verdict form, and how they should begin questions. that will begin tomorrow, but the prosecution, was very emotional and methodical, playing out the stories of each of the victims and meticulously detailing the evidence that he was saying, that he was trying to conceal his actions that he knew right

from wrong. and that really is the nub of this case, whether holmes was saying on the night of july 12th, when he went into that theater and killed 12 and injured more than 70 more. let's hear what the prosecution has to say. >> he came in with overwhelming firepower. he brought with him over 700 rounds including steel penetrating rounds and he shot anything and everything he could. >> . >> david the prosecution used more than 800 slides during that presence, and also attacked the credibility of the defense's expert witnesses. now, for the defense's part, they went on the offensive as well returning the favor saying that the prosecution's case was based on emotion and not the facts of james holmes' mental state saying that his meticulous planning and eated tries to seek treatment were evidence of psychotic

ambivalence. that he was not aware of what was right and wrong and he was trying to see his way out of the delusions clouding his thinking. let's listen to some of the defense's argument. >> they have to prove to you that his mental processes were such that the psychosis that the doctors have all said he was suffering from did not obscure his ability to make a distinction between right and wrong. now. and david, prosecution are seeking the death penalty in this case, and so what the defense is doing even if they can't get away from a guilty verdict, they are appealing to the jury, when it comes to sentencing time, so sentence him to life, and not a death sentence. >> paul in centennial, colorado. thank you. just ahead four americans retained, and the family has hope. we'll talk to the wife of a man

kept in prison for almost four years.

>> our top story tonight. the deal reached today with iran is generating both praise and condemnation. supporters say that it's an important step toward peace, and critics it glosses over human rights record. by all accounts, iran is holding hundreds of political prisoners, including three americans, and there's a fourth that's missing. >> david activists that i spoke with said that the nuclear issue has often overshadowed human rights of violations in iran, and they hope that today's deal will pave the way to change. many activists are hoping that the iran nuclear deal is a way to peace. but say that they should prioritize human rights. >> a lot of human rights activists hope that once the

deal is reached. the political space and space for society in the country will open up. >> they say that the situation is dire. u.n. special report on human rights in iran has reported a surge in executions, more than 750 last year. hundreds of political prisoners are behind bars, including journalists and lawyers and activists. he and his wife have been under house arrest since 2011. and there are at least three americans in prison. he had his first hearing in his espionage trial on monday. >> he's not a murderer and not a spy. this type of detention is hurting him and his family, and we want him on bail, released with his family. >> pastor sahid is serving eight years in prison, allegedly for holding private christian gatherings, and a former marine has been jailed

since 2011 on charges of espionage which he denies. on tuesday his family said in a statement while emir said himself that he should not be part of any nuclear deal, his release would be a strong gesture of faith to the international community. retired fbi agent robert levinson, went missing in iran in 2007. >> there's not a day that doesn't go by that we don't him, how much he must be suffering and what we can do to bring him home. >> activists say in the short run that human rights may get worse before better, as the hardliners try to undermine. but they hope in the long run they will force the world to pressure the human rights record. >> the iranian community can focus more on the human rights and use the leverage that they have in terms political leverage and economic leverage

to push tehran to stand by its human rights obligations. >> the u.s. has placed sanctions on iran over its human rights record. and they have barred iranians from entering the u.s., and their assets are frozen. u.s. plans toe keep those restrictions in place. the wife of pastor sahid abadini, who was just mentioned in roxanne's piece and she joins us from idaho. and i wonder if we can get your reaction to the deal that was announced today. and of course it doesn't include anything about your husband. >> well, thank you for having me. i'm a bit disappointed. and i'm not necessarily against the deal. but i was hoping even on the sidelines, there was some indication that the release of my husband and the other americans was secured. and i've gotten an indication that it hasn't been secured yet. and i think as we move forward

it will get harder and harder if we don't get said and other americans out. >>out. there were talks about your husband and two other americans, and does that give you any satisfaction that at least the iranian negotiators heard about them from secretary of state john kerry? >> . >> yes they said on day one that they wanted to separate it from the deal. but they wanted to separate it from the sideline. blue there's no confirmed indication -- they're not secured. and their release is not secured yet. we're hoping that this better relationship with iran and the u.s. would mean that iran will take good faith measures and

release sahid and the other americans, but nothing has been secured. and their release has not been secured yet. >> one of the conditions of your husband's imprisonment, and when was the last time that you have been able to talk to him? >> i haven't been able to talk to him since his imprisonment but his father gets to visit him in prison every week. conditions are getting worse and both inside of the prison, there are political opposition groups that don't like that a deal has been made. they want it to fall through and also hardliners who have been chanting death to america have been against the deal. those are the people that are holding my husband. they don't like that he's an american, and don't like that he's a pastor, and his situation is getting worse. i have conveyed that to the u.s. government, that it's very serious and urgent to get him out as soon as possible. >> how long has he been held and what was happening at the time that he was taken?

>> he has been held for almost three years and he was there working with the iranian government, with the encouragement the iranian government working on an orphanage. when they sentenced him to three years in prison, they said that he hadn't broken my law, and under the years 2005, a more president had gathered in homes with other christians, which is legal. it's allowed under the iranian government has in their constitution protects gatherings, peaceful gatherings of religious minorities, but they said that the intense of christians gathering is actually to undermine the national security of iran. so they didn't say that he has broken any law. [ audio difficulties ] >> the wife of pastor saeed

abadini. good luck to you. >> thank you so much. the heart of the agreement with iran, the eventual lifting of the hard sanctions. [ audio difficulties ] >> it took more recent [ audio difficulties ] to get iranians to the negotiating table. when i came to iran, i had to bring all the cash that i need. my credit cards don't work here nor do the atm cards. in 2012, iran was pulled off

the swift system. a society for worldwide interbank transactions. it's a society of 9,000 banks in most of the world's countries, which allow for global trade through the transfer of money. because it's off the swift system iran, iranian banks and iranian people can't move money electronically around the world. all trade with iran is not prohibited under sanctions. imports of food is still allowed. but the inability to wire money to pay for them effectively cuts iranians off from necessities like medicine. >> it was not major problems. just patience, for example. children [ unintelligible ]. >> it's hard to see the affect of sanctions up front in shelves and bazaars, shelves

are full of goods and business is brisk. it looks the same with iran's ports. but business with the rest of the world has taken a big hit. because iranian companies can't pay for goods coming in or pay for things going out. they are paid for in container equivalents. this in iran hand 2.5 million quiv let's, and that dropped 28%. reason for that is sanctions. the pain of sanctions is being felt across iran's major export industries, like oil and auto. but sanctions also hit iranian consumers, who must also contend with hyper inflation. that has valued iran yeas currency to just one-third of its value since 2010. >> iranian leaders have decided to make a deal. they have decided to more or

less close down the nuclear program, which they spent a lot of money on, and people died for it. but in return, what they want is lifting of sanctions. >> in the end the forced belt tightening by iran's businesses and workers have pushed government negotiators to prioritize lifting sanctions over preserving the country's nuclear capacity. ali velshi, aljazeera. >> ali velshi will have more reporting from inside of iran tonight here on aljazeera america. the results are already reverberating on the presidential cam main. democrat, hilliary clinton t. said that she supported the agreement. >> this is an be important step that huts the lid on iran's nuclear programs, and it will then enable us to turn our

attention, as it must, to doing what we can with the other partners in the region and beyond. to try to prevent and contain iran's other bad actions. >> democratic candidate bernie sanders, from vermont said that he wants to see the details of the deal, but issued a statement calling it a victory for diplomacy, and it could keep the united states from being drawn into another never ending war in the middle east. on the republican side, there was skepticism and anger today. billionaire businessman, donald trump, who is leading some of the polls said that inspectors will not have unfettered access. speaking to nbc news. >> any time anywhere, we should be able to go in and inspect. and if you don't have that, you don't have nothing because you know the iranians are going to

cheat. >> former governor, jeb bush, called the deal dangerous and said that it does not cut off all of iranians pathways to a nuclear weapon, but over time, it paves the way. and the restrictions only last 10-15 years. marco rubio said as president he would "reimpose sanctions on this despicable regime until it's truly willing to abandon it's nuclear ambitions." scott walker said "undoing the damage caused by this deal won't be easy." now to the financial bailout of greece. the imf just released a report saying that europe should write off some of the enormous debt. and give a three year grace period to get the country working again. and meanwhile the prime minister said today that he will not resign. a statement comes with growing dissent from his own party

with austerity measures imposed by the european union. they are scheduled to vote tomorrow, and the vote is expected to be closed. the prime minister said that banks could possibly be closed for a month. today in the united states, the final day on the job for clerks in decatur county, tennessee, who resigned in protest following the supreme court's it decision legalizing same-sex marriage. robert ray has been meeting with officials saying that it will be business as usual in the county clerk's office. >> it's the picture of america's rural south. with church steeples, flags and storefronts from another era. since the supreme court decision to make same-sex marriage legal this tiny region of west tennessee has been reeling. the entire county clerk office resigned, saying the high court ruling, which meant issuing marriage licenses to gay

couples, clashed with their beliefs. >> are most people on this commission against what the supreme court has ruled? >> i can't say that it's a majority or not i would say that it's a high probability. >> in the past few weeks decatur county is facing unique challenges. >> linda broadbent was voted in and since monday has taken over the job of granting marriage licenses, including same-sex applications. >> we have now overcome those challenges. miss broadway, who has stepped forward to take on the county clerk's position. >> so far decatur county has not had any couples apply for a same-sex marriage license. >> you can see the mayor and the new county clerk did not want to answer any questions or go on-air. and we talked to them earlier in the day and the mayor said

that he would but clearly this is a hot topic here in the county, where in the state over 80% of the people here are against same-sex marriage, according to a recent poll. so people are keeping their opinions to themselves, but this county in decatur has a new county clerk. >> but drew baker of the tennessee equality project is not willing to keep his opinions quiet. his organization has been preparing for the counties not to comply with the decision. but then -- >> the governor came out really quickly after the decision came down on the he 26th and said that the state government would comply, and i was surprised frankly, that he came out so quickly and so vocally in support of the ruling. >> in the past few weeks scenarios like the one in decatur county have played out in arkansas and mississippi. with county clerks refusing to

issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and resigning after citing religious reasons. and in kentucky, rowan be county clerk, kim davis who also stopped issuing licenses, got into a heated exchange with gay couple, david ram add and david moore last week. whether county clerk davis can use her beliefs to not issue licenses to same-sex couples. >> we pay taxes here and we have our rights. it's not a choice. >> the first case of its kind in the nation. two people are dead and several others missing after flash floods swept through the midwest, in kentucky, damaging homes and washing away dozens of them. in kansas, at least one tornado touched down on monday. and in chicago residents reported baseball-sized hail.

more rain is expected as the storm system spreads to the southeast. >> reporter:. >> coming up, it's one of the most anticipated literary releases. harper lee's novel go set a watchman. how the fans are reacting to the new adicus finch. and now nasa's new horizon space craft just got a great look at pluto.

>> he escaped from prison on saturday after escaping from a hole he created in the cell and through a mile-long tunnel.

three prison employees including the director, have now been fired. it's a novel that has taken the world by storm, but few saw it coming. harmer lee's prize-winning seek al to "to kill a mocking bird" landed in the stores. >> it's rare these days that one novel can grab so much attention beyond the literary world. and in alabama author harperly's hometown, the place that inspired her writing the release of go set a watchman had anticipation. >> it's exciting, and i think it's huge. >> the biggest preordered book on amazon since the final harry potter story the midnight release in several countries drew crowds, eager for harper lee's first book since the prize-winning classic, "to kill

a mocking bird," which later became an oscar-winning film. go set a watchman is set in the 1950s, 20 years after "to kill a mocking bird." it deals with racism and changing attitudes in the south. >> and if it hurts a little bit, it hurts. it was life 60 years ago in this town. >> the novel has also come with some controversy mainly over the depiction of adicus finch. the courageous father and attorney who defended a black man falsely accused of rape. >> i hate it, because i wanted him to remain our hero. >> alabama historian and harper lee's close friend said that readers will now see finch has a more believable character. >> he has to be a lawyer practicing his profession in a town of 3,000 people, where the white citizen's council is a

prominent political force, and he's a politician. >> the book's release has peeked fan's curiosity. did harper lee really want the manuscript published? and is there a third novel? lee, 89, rarely speaks publicly. >> harper lee is a private person, who thinks that you have no right to all of answers of her life. and she assumes that she'll have to live the same way that she does. >> ron monroeville alabama. >> john john seigenthaler is here. >> more about the nuclear deal with iran, from the halls of the u.s. congress, to israel and saudi arabia, we'll talk about how the deal came together and the questions of whether it will work, and plus, daily life for millions of iranians. they only know a life of

economic sanctions. what this deal could mean for them. and also, diplomacy through jazz. the life-changing experiences american musicians are making in iran, and why the iranian government has welcomed them into their country. all coming up in just a few minutes. dave. >> i'm looking forward to it. nine years and 3 billion miles in the making, it is the fly by that has nasa cheering. the new horizon probe that has gotten closer to pluto than any before it, and it sheds a new light on the planet. >> the end of a nine-planet checklist for the human species. we have put a spacecraft in all of the other male bodies in our solar system, and this is the last one pluto. until now everything about pluto has been a guess and we

didn't know what was going on with it. and already we're beginning to understand all of the things about it. 3 billion miles away, it's going to take awhile to get all of the data back. 16 months or more before we know everything that this space craft knows about what it has seen in whipping past pluto as it has presumably just done. but we know that it's covered in a combination of possibly rock and frost that it has dynamic seasons, and one of the researchers pointed out that it probably snows on the surface from time to time. and all of the things that we know about the dynamism about the planet. all of that was just guesswork before now and this is the first time that we have really gotten to take our eyes, or at least a robotic extension of our eyes and put it on the planet for the first time. >> why has the technology advanced enough to gather some of this information to earth? >> you have to remember that any spacecraft sent out into

space is frozen in time technologically speaking from its launch. so the fact that this took nine years out there is frozen in time. but the array of sensors on there is amazing. we didn't know anything about this place because it's just so far away. here's how the staff astronomer of one of the bay area's largest telescopa raise how he described the gap in our knowledge until now. >> pluto is probably the closest and largest at this point example of these large objects that we call dwarf planets, so we're really opening the door to the investigation of part of the solar system that we have not explored before. from earth, we have used telescopes like the hubble to try to obama these objects but even pluto is so far away that the hubble telescope has only given us fuzzy images and

rudimentary about its composition. >> david, on the other hand, we think this is the final check mark in a nine-planet to do list but on the other hand, it's a totally new celestial body. with the rock and ice that it comprises, it's totally uncharted territory for the human race, so the fact that we have been able to get signals back, the track that all of them has gotten back to it, it's a proud day for the human race. >> in paris we end this hour. a massive fireworks display to commemorate bass till day. on this date in 1789, they stormed the bass still looking for gunpowder held by louie xiv, and it has become a national day of celebration the equivalent for the 4th of july here in the united states. i'm david schuster, thank you

for watching, and john seigenthaler will be back, and the iranian agreement, 9 p.m., 6 p.m. pacific here on aljazeera america.

>> hi everyone, i'm john seigenthaler. >> i'm confident this deal will meet the national security for us and our allies. >> details of the landmark deal. the fine print the fall out and what lifting the sanctions means for everyone. plus world reaction from israel's warning. >> this is a bad mistake.