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you are watching al jazeera america, and live from new york city i'm morgan radford. president obama launches his latest battle today over the iran nuclear program, and he is trying to convince congress that the deal is in the interests of the american people. republican critics, however, say they don't trust iran to abide by those terms. there are a lot of moving parts before this deal can actually be implemented, and one of those is the 60-day congressional review which is now underway. joe biden was on the hill today, what exactly did he say? >> reporter: well, this was a closed door meeting with the house democratic caucus. it's 207 members strong, and we're told most were there, and it was packed. on the way into the meeting the vice president explained what he hoped to accomplish. >> i'm here to answer questions and explain what the deal is.

i'm confident they'll like it when they understand it. >> reporter: this is the beginning of what is expected to be a whole series of meetings. we're likely to see secretary of state john kerry up here and the energy secretary as well. it was fairly technical we're told. representative steve israel from new york said the talk today was about the specifics of the deal. >> there was not one sentence about the politics or the president's prestige, none of that. it was all about explaining the terms and technicalities of this deal. but he also said look you are going to have to make the ultimate judgment by yourselves. >> reporter: this meeting lasted about an hour and a half. he left with nancy pelosi. she is really going to be key to -- to the president to try to hold democrats in line to ensure that this deal does not get

scuttled in any way. morgan? >> even with support with people like nancy pelosi how is this going to proceed on the hill? >> reporter: well as you said there is this 60-day review period. a vote will take place in september when congress gets back from the august recess and they can pass a joint resolution, they can either approve the deal disapprove it or decide not to vote at all. they can't scuttle the deal but they can stop the president from lifting u.s. sanctions against iran. and this is going to be a very tough to sell for the president. he has threatened to veto any disapproval of this measure, and then what will really have to happen is the democrats -- enough democrats will have to stay in line to sustain that veto. but the white house ultimately morgan does not want a messy political fight in the wake of

what the president sees as his signature achievement in foreign policy. >> lisa thank you. michael shure is live at the white house for us. michael president obama is set to hold a news conference in the next hour, really trying to sell his message to congress as lisa just mentioned. but really who else does he need to convince? >> reporter: needs to convince the people that this is the right thing. he wants this legacy to be carried forward into the next election. he wants to see these candidates out there on the trail not going after his legacy as it were on foreign policy. he also needs to sell it to the jewish voters in this country. he has to make sure that he is able to say that this will ultimately help israel. >> it's interesting you mentioned those other candidates what are they saying about this deal? >> reporter: well hillary

clinton has the most at stake here. she has given support, but she has given reserve support at different times. here is the catch for hillary clinton. her fingerprints are going to be put on this by her opponents in this race next year. so people will hold her responsible for this. and she has to embrace it and distance herself from some of the details. jeb bush is going to go after hillary clinton as well. but the consensus can best be summed up by somebody like scott walker. >> iran is not a place we should do business with. [ cheers and applause ] >> looking ahead, looking ahead, we need a president who will terminate that bad deal with iran on day one.

>> reporter: so you would think morgan that with all of the people running for president that one of the republicans would want to stand apart from the pack and say this is possibly a good idea we have to watch it clearly, diplomacy would be something that would be a hallmark of my administration. thus far, no one has said that. >> that's interesting. we talked about the people jeb, scott, hilary what about the country. what does the president have to do to win over skeptical allies like israel. >> reporter: israel is an interesting case. benjamin netenyahu has two options here. he pushed very hard against this. he could decide listen i'm going to try to repair my relationship with president obama, try to bridge that gap again, because this is a frayed relationship, maybe as frayed as any prime and president in the last 25 years. or he could say i'm going to still try to lobby congress. and i'm just going to keep

pushing. and that's what most analysts expect him to do. the president can wait for an overture from netenyahu which is what it seems the white house is willing to do. morgan. >> michael thanks so much. stay tuned to al jazeera america here because we will bring you president obama's news conference coming up in just the next hour. as michael mentioned president obama has to persuade a major ally israel. that deal is in the long-term security interests. prime minister netenyahu so far isn't convinced, saying it puts iran on a sure path to nuclear weapons. we asked a former israeli prime minister what we thought of the deal. >> i think it's really a bad agreement, so in a way it's a mistake to -- to have it. it's bad because it gives the -- it makes iran a threshold nuclear player. it allows iran to choose when to turn actually nuclear power not

without certain risks along the way, especially they will decide to do it in the coming few years. it -- it relieves the -- the tight noose around the economic kind of situation. i think that there were alternatives. there was an opening for a much tougher kind of negotiation with the however soft speaking will be accompanied by a big stick in the background that will convince the iranian's somehow that they have to basically dismantle the installation and stop the nuclear program. basically we are in a totally new page in the history of the middle east starting from yesterday. basically the world lead by america, including russia, clie that, europe and so on all

agreed to recognize iran as a major legitimate regional power, and basically, iran is now transformed from being part of the problem as they used to be for the last 12 years, into part of the hopefully and gradually part of the solution. >> that's what he said. but on the other side former negotiator ambassador burns called it a sensible deal for the united states. >> i don't think it is perfect. we had to make the compromises that any government has to in a situation like this. but it will freeze iran's nuclear program for the next decade, and we can be reasonably certain that iran will not be able to obtain a nuclear weapon. and that's the fundamental interest that the united states has, israel has, and the arab countries have as well.

>> he did say there needs to be more transparency about international inspections. some critics of the iran nuclear deal point to the human rights issue. roxana saberi has more. >> reporter: many activists are welcoming the nuclear deal as a way to promote peace, but they say now iran and other countries should prioritize human rights. >> a lot of human rights activists inside the country have actually been very hopeful that in fact once the nuclear deal is reached any political space, the space for civil society in the country will open up. >> reporter: they say the situation is dire the u.n. special report on human rights in tehran has reported what he calls a surge in executions more than 750 last year. hundreds of political prisoners are behind bars including journalists, loilists, and

activists. this man and his wife have been under house arrest since 2011. and there are still at least three americans still in prison. >> he is not a murderer or a spy. this type of -- this type of detention is hurting him. it is hurting his family. we want him on bail released with his family. >> reporter: this pastor is serving eight years in prison allegedly for holding private christian gathering. and this former marine has been jailed since 2011 on charges of espionage, which he denies. retired fbi agent seen here in a video posted on youtube went missing in iran in 2007.

>> there's not a day that goes by when we don't think of him, how much he must be suffering, and what we can do next to bring him home. >> reporter: activists say in the short run, human rights might get worse before they get better. but they hope in the long run, bringing iran out of isolation will force the world to pressure it into a better record. >> the international community can use the leverage they now have in terms of political and economic leverage to push tehran to stand by its human rights obligations. oil traders are happy about the iran deal and markets slid by another 1% today as they anticipate more oil flooding the market. until now sanctions had blocked most of the country's oil from

being exported. well it is decision time for greek lawmakers, and parliament is set to vote on whether to accept bailout terms that include some pretty punishing cuts. [ gunfire ] and that is the video police in one california town did not want released. officers killed an unarmed man and leaving many wondering if it was justified.

greek lawmakers are still debating the latest european bailout proposal and they have until midnight to do it. some members of the ruling party are slamming the plan which includes some pretty deep spending cuts. the deputy finance minister says she won't stand for it and she is stepping down. >> i won't vote for this agreement, and this means i cannot stay in the government. it's only decent that, you know i surrender my ministry. >> patricia sabga has more. >> reporter: greek civil

servants marched to parliament to protest economic reform measures the prime minister must convince a majority of lawmakers to pass before midnight tonight. these measures are necessary to move forward with a bailout package that is even harsher than the one a majority of greeks rejected a little over a week ago. this bailout package is not only seen as harsh, but intrusive and humiliating. but without it greek banks will almost surely collapse putting depositor's at risk of being wiped out. a syriza mp explained why she is voting to pass reform measures she and her party are fundamentally, philosophically against. >> translator: this vote is not from our hearts but for political reasons this is what we have to do today.

go one step back so you can go later two steps forward. >> reporter: while the immediate question is whether the reform measures can be passed today, the biggest question is whether this bailout package will lift the greek economy out of its quagmire. the imf said that european leaders had to start considering debt relief measures far in excess of what they have considered in the past. measures such as giving a haircut on its debt basically forgiving a large portion of its debt immediately, or pushing out the time line for when greece has to start repaying its principals and interest. these are some live pictures from athens just outside of the greek parliament where members of a communist-backed labor union are leading demonstration demonstrations. >> reporter: the former book keeper of auschwitz has been convicted of his role in some

300,000 murderers. he admitted to moral guilt at the camp but he insisted he was not legally responsible for those deaths. new details this morning in the prison break of mexican drug lord guzman. mexican authorities released this security camera video, showing the exact moment that guzman escaped. now they are offering almost $4 million just to find him. as john hullman reports, the break represents something much bigger than just a security breach for the mexican government. >> reporter: the morning mist envelops the prison a reflection of the mystery surrounding the escape of joaquin guzman. he slipped out of the tunnel his cell's bathroom on saturday evening. only 16 months after the government paraded him as their biggest capture in the war against drugs. the interior minister left no

doubt this was an inside job. >> translator: he had to have had help from the staff or bosses of the prison. if that's confirmed, it will be an about of corruption and the betrayalal of the mexican people. >> reporter: heads are already rolling among them that of the prison director. behind me is the building where he emerged after walking through a 1.5 kilometer tunnel. he escapes in some style the tunnel was equipped with ventilation, it was tall enough for him to walk standing up in and had lighting. it was a meticulously planned organization. >> translator: they had a generator which you could hear from the road and you could see the lights from the window. >> reporter: it's the second

time guzman has escapes prison. legend has it the first time, 14 years ago, was in a laundry basket. this time around the u.s. were desperate to extradite him. the mexican government refused but now their biggest prize has become their biggest embarrassment. >> what chapo's escaping does is shatters the illusion of power, so the government is not seen as a strong force, which can make demands on traffickers, which can lay down the rules. it's seen as weak and that could have serious implications on the ground. the government launched an all-out manhunt across the country, but there are no clues so far as to where el chapo is enjoying his newly found freedom. federal reserve chair janet yellen is on capitol hill to deliver the fed's report on the economy. she said the economy appears to

be on track, and the fed still plans to raise interest rates later this year. honda has agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims of racial discrimination. american honda finance discriminated against minorities by overcharging them for vehicle loans. they will have to pay compensation for the alleged victims and $1 million towards a financial education program for minorities. outrage in los angeles today as the public gets its first look of dash cam video from a shooting two years ago. fill us in on what this video shows. because it seems to be showing something different than what police originally said went down. >> that's right, morgan. this is a shooting that occurred in a city south of los angeles two years ago, and for years the

police department has fought to prevent the release of this video. that video shows what played out just moments after officers got a radio call of a robbery nearby, and we should warn you before we show you that video, it is quite graphic. the video was taken from the dash cam of a police car, the three young men were pulled over by police suspected of stealing a bike. officers order the men to put up their hands. one follows the orders but the other man you see, lowers and raises his arms several times. at one point you see him remove his cap and that is when officers open fire. we see this play out from two different perspectives from two different dash cam videos and we know that man was shot eight times and died on the scene. his friend was shot in the back but survived. the victim's family says this video clearly shows the men did not pose a threat that he was

killed in cold blood. they sued the city and the city settled for $4.7 million. officers say they did that under the belief that the video would remain under seal but media organizations including "the los angeles times" fought to take them public. the officers involved were initially placed on leave following the shooting, but they have since returned to the force, and the victim's family now says they would like those officers removed immediately in light of the new video. >> that video is really hard to watch, and you mention what the family's lawyer says, but what are police saying now that this video is in fact out? in >> yeah police are saying that they had serious privacy concerns. and i want to read a statement that we got from the police department. part of it says imagine the implications of criminals seeing and hearing everything victims and witnesses tell police officers, or victims being subjected to having their

interactions with police broadcast on the news or posted on the internet. they continue to say in this statement, our police officers are entrusted with sensitive and extremely personal information. we often come in contact with people under tragic situations and at their worst. we worry about the implications of this decision. and it's impact on victims and average citizens who are recorded by police. so morgan you can see officers -- the police department clearly taking a different stance. >> that's interesting, because after the recent wave of shootings here across the country against minorities a lot of people are arguing on the other side of the fence, that it's exactly that footage that is protecting these communities. >> yeah absolutely. the national debate seems to be going towards transparency but this police department arguing

that that could have a chilling effect. >> thanks so much. them we fbi says it has dismantled a web-hacking forum called dark code. it has been labeled the best malware marketplace on the web. prosecutors call it one of the most grave threats to the integrity of data in the u.s. and around the world. >> through this operation we have dismantled a cyber hornet's net of criminal hackers which was believed by many to be inpen ratable. >> it required referrals from current members if you wanted to join. 70 years ago this week the first atomic bomb went off in new mexico. as tristan reports today residents are still feeling those effects. on the morning of july 16th,

1945, many new something happened in the desert. a bright flash came up over these hills and was seen gearly 200 miles away in gallop. officials stated that a munitions magazine had exploded. but it was a military cover story, a ruse to hide what really took place here on the white sands missile range the united states first test of an atomic weapon code name trinity. residents living nearby were not told about radiation dangers. those living in the blast zone are known as down winders and hundreds have been diagnosed with cancer. >> i would like to ask everybody out there that a cancer survivor or battling cancer to please stand up. >> a 1990 law called the radiation exposure compensation act specifically does not koovr

new mexicoian civilians. >> do you have any idea how much cancer treatment costs? 306,346 dollars. that's almost a third of a million dollars was submitted to my insurance company. >> i just want to say one thing. i think what this is about, and this is my fight and this is about justice for people that were harmed by the government. >> reporter: senator tom udall wants to change that but faces resistance in congress. we'll have the full story later today. as tristan mentioned you can watch his full report tonight at 8:00 pm eastern. the first solar powered to try flying ash the world has been grounded until next year. it suffered battery damage on its way from japan to hawaii. unanticipated temperatures caused the damage. but engineers hope to get the

plane flying again by next april. thanks so much for joining us here. i'm morgan radford. we'll bring you president obama's news conference from the white house just after this very short break. stay tuned. ♪

>> looking for support. president obama is trying to sell the iranian nuclear deal to congress and he'll make his case to the american people in just moments in a white house news conference. this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm david shuster. we start this hour wit