>> debating iran. >> if they were to develop nuclear weapons which would be a big if. >> norm chomsky challenges conventional wisdom. spotlight on africa. >> i think president obama's be grade on africa will patch and

exceed his predecessors. >> beating the heat. >> pretty cool to spray water all over the streets so people can get a little bit cooled off. >> record-breaking temperatures bake the u.s. and europe with 2015 shaping up to be the hottest year ever recorded. shark infested waters. >> there is a shark attack on this beach three or four years ago, and the very next morning they were out surfing in the same spot. >> the ocean's predators with tv hose and conservationist jeff corwin. >> good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera. we begin in saudi arabia where

the monarchy has finally endorsed the iran nuclear deal. ash carter got it today. reassured the saudis of the u.s. commitment to back arab allies. but in washington the deal's popularity is nearing rock bottom. john terret reports how the deal is facing an uphill battle. >> selling the deal, secretary ash carter arriving in saudi arabia. carter and the accord did receive a warm welcome but even he admits with some reservation. >> the only reservations we discussed were ones that we thoroughly shared, namely: that we attend overification of the agreementto vairveghtse-verification

of verification of the agreement. and the snap back of sanctions. >> reporter: those sanction he will be put back in place immediately according to the agreement should the iranians renege on any part of the deal. still, saudis are concerned about iran building nuclear weapons while its influence grows in the nation. iran already funds hezbollah in lebanon and has been accused by saudis of backing houthis. who removed yemen's president earlier this year. firing off warning should any sanction he relief be blocked. >> translator: if for any reason all or parts of the security council's sanctions are restored the islamic republic of iran will not commit itself to its voluntary commitments. >> reporter: in washington, members of the cabinet met behind doors with skeptical house and senate members over

the deal. >> the agreement we have arrived at with world powers is an agreement that will prevent iran from is the potential of securing a nuclear weapon. it will make the region, our friends and allies, safer. it will make the world safer. and we are convinced that the absence of any viable alternative, absolutely underscores that fact. >> reporter: republicans are trying ocollect enough votes to block president obama from lifting sanctions and effectively killing the deal. to do that, though they'd have to win enough democrats to secure a veto proof deal. >> he secures skeptic skepticism here at home. we're going to do everything possible to stop it. >> john terret, al jazeera. >> thousands of protesters packed new york's times square tonight to denounce the nuclear

deal. former cia director james woolsey and form he governor george pataki joined the rally. al jazeera's paul beban was there. >> reporter: thousands of people packed in along both sides of seventh avenue stretching from times square 42nd street down to about 40th. if the organizers are correct there's as many as ten to 2012,000 people12,000people here. the main sentiment stop iran, no nukes for iran, this is a bad deal both for the united states and for israel. this protest was organized by a coalition of conservatives and jewish groups from across the country, the main organized the jewish rapid response coalition saying they brought people from all around the country and all around the region. we've spoken to some of the speakers here, also some of the protests about why they are here

today. >> there are several alternatives. either iran can change its activities in supporting international terrorism and a tyrannical government and be a peaceful nation and signal that. that's one option. that's their choice to make. the other option is, war will be in the middle east. >> this is not an equitable deal. this is a deal which gives iran everything they want and will eventually lead to a nuclear war in the middle east. it vix guarantees however long down the line it virtually guarantees iran pursuing a nuclear bomb. this is not just about iran, once they have the bomb it's going to spread throughout the middle eastern countries. >> this is just the first in a series of protests as congress reviews the deal over the flex 60 days. some fiery rhetoric here. former cia director james

woolsey saying, there is only one choice, complete capitulation to iran. back to you antonio. >> norm chomsky flown for his unconventional views on world affairs, said u.n. security council procedures were already in place for any potential iranian violation of the nuclear proliferation treaty. he argues that the situation is based on defense. >> u.s. intelligence has explained it. they point out that iran has very low military expenditures. even by the standards of the region let alone others, far less than saudi arabia, of course far less than israel, even less than uae. if they were to develop nuclear

weapons which is a big if, it would be part of their deterrent strategy. >> we'll have more of my conversation with chomsky in a few minutes in our in context segment. more than a week has passed since the deal with iran was announced, be hoped the agreement would bring about their release. today one of iran's chief negotiators said their situation was discussed but only briefly. >> translator: we touched on the iranian nationals as a humanitarian issue. we did not discuss any other issues. >> today was the anniversary of the arrest of washington post reporter jason rezaian. today the newspaper asked the united nations to help free him. the senate foreign relations committee will hold their refrigerators hearing on the deal on wednesday.

treasury secretary jacob lew is scheduled to testify live coverage 10:00 a.m. eastern 7:00 a.m. pacific. a string of bombings in iraq killed 30 people. 18 died with when a car explodein a predominantly shia neighborhood of baghdad. another explosion in a.m. shaab killed eight others. separately at least 22 iraqi fighters were killed by a doubling suicide bomb blast in anbar province. be local authorities say the blasts were the work of i.s.i.l. imran khan has a look at the battle for anbar. >> reporter: this is a rare look at iraq's latest operation in anbar province against i.s.i.l. this footage was shot with the percentages of iraq security forces. they've launched what's been described as the first phase to cut i.s.i.l. supply license and

to surround the cities of fallujah and ramadi. iraqi fighters along with shia militia are shelling houses with i.s.i.l. fighters. >> we are bombarding i.s.i.l. with fighter jets and shelling as well. we have consolidated all of our efforts including the rapid deployment forces and the hopeful mobilization forces for phase 1 of this ordinancive. >> by cordoning off ramadi and fallujah, iraqi troops hope to retake the towns from i.s.i.l. fighters. pro-government sunni forces are also involved in the fight and are calling on sunni forces to leave the cities. >> we are naming for the next 48 hours to completely finish the cordon across ramadi. we call on all the remaining people there to immediately leave the city so they won't be

held accountable just like i.s.i.l. we will consider anyone remaining in the group to be a i.s.i.l. accomplice. >> this is a warning how tough fight will be. said they would rather die than surrender. somewhere there's no indication when this operation will be over but once again i.s.i.l. have proved to be a formidable foe using car bombs to great tactical advantage. however the iraqis say this will be a decisive operation and when the cities of ramadi and fallujah will fall then the whole of anbar province will be back under government control. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. turkey identified the man responsible for the deadly bombing in suruc as one of its own. they blame i.s.i.l. for attack that killed 32 activists and wounded dozens more. meanwhile those who survived ever struggling to cope.

mohammed jamjun has the story. >> slumped over,ist e-mail ishmael is in deep unrelenting pain. >> i left them there he tells me i left my brothers there. how could i have done that? ishmael, kosimim felt closer than many others. they planned to cross the border into kobani syria and help their brothers rebuild a devastated city. like many other members of the kurdish population, ishmael is pointing the finger of blame towards turkey's government. he is particularly offended by how officials handled the aftermath of the blast telling me the army.arrived before the

ambulance. anger and anxiety appear to be on the rise, the attack not only underscores just how much of a threat i.s.i.l. has become but also highlights the relationship between the be turkish government and its population. the threat of be the area cannot be ignored. tensions have arisen even further, the pkk were behind the killing of two turkish police officers ishmael feels kurds will continue to be targeted. have any of i.s.i.l.'s members been arrested? ishmael lost the use of his legs in a car accident nine years

ago. but says the wounds he sustained in this attack are far worse. i didn't get any physical injuries he says but psychologically in my heart i got injured. i feel like this arm is gone and this arm is gone. my cousins were my arms and legs. they were my comrades. they were my brothers. now for ishmael the war has hit home. but the conflict he sees next door pales in comparison to the turmoil he feels inside. mohammed jamjun al jazeera turkey. suicide bombing happened in fariad province. two dozen people were killed and dozens more woounlded. so far no one has claimed responsibility for bombing. jennifer glasse has more from kabul. >> province has been an area where there's been a lot of taliban fighting. the taliban still control a

number of villages and there have been offenses going on up there as the afghan military tries to clear that area. vice president says it is his home area and he says he will not leave until the taliban are cleared from that area. the apparent target of the suicide attack were afghan forces and the hospital is full of innocent civilians. >> jennifer glasse in kabul. in greece, staibles is tryingstaiblesalexis tsipras istrying to avoid at crisis. members of the be syriza party are threatening to vote against the deal. >> translator: we're being forced. this is not an agreement. being blackmailed is not an agreement. it is not an agreement to have an entire democratic country submit to the will of other governments and other countries.

>> back again to live pictures in the parliament where they have just voted and approved a new round of austerity. and this debate has triggered a lot of protests in athens. much is being made about swimmers and surfers encounterreringencountering sharks this year. more with jeff corwin. and political dissident noam chomsky.

>> now it's time for our "in context" segment. earlier i spoke to noam chomsky on the iran nuclear deal. i asked him whether he felt it was a good deal from the u.s. perspective. >> the real question is, why is

the deal being pursued? what exactly is the threat of iran? that's fundamental question. the deal does constrain what's called the iranian threat. but what exactly is the threat? it's interesting that that question isn't raised, although actually it is raised. >> but there is a nuclear nonproliferation treaty, many felt iran violated that. >> iran has lived up to it. descream is not a party to it -- israel is not a party to it and has a huge nuclear weapons system and the u.s. protects it. pakistan is not a party to it. its nuclear weches system was developed with the support of the united states. india is not part of it and it has a nuclear weapons program

supported by the u.s. >> do you think iran having nuclear weapons would be a good thing? >> i don't think so, no one having nuclear weapons including the united states but that's not the issue. the iran's alleged noncompliance with the npt is an issue and i add alleged that certainly doesn't require sanctions or a treaty or any other actions. >> now i know you've said before the u.s. had no right to sanction iran in the first place but why not? the united states also imposed sacks, others argued it did with its enrichment -- good. >> if it did fine. those countries it's primarily the united states . the others are rather mild but if countries are opposed to violation of the npt then fine. let's turn to the major violators. israel pakistan and india. all with u.s. and western

support. >> iran on the other hand, though threatens other nation in the region. >> who is iran threatening? >> well, iran has called for the extermination of the state of israel. >> i'm sorry it's -- those are words. who is it threatening? there are countries that are threatening others in the region. israel, for example has invaded lebanon repeatedly. destructively. the united states and britain invaded iraq. the worst crime of this century. devastated iraq. exacerbated a latent and nonexistent, almost nonexistent sectarian conflict which is now tearing the region to shreds. yeah that's -- and we can continue -- that's threatening others by those standards whatever you think about iran it's not in that league.

look, i don't think anyone ought to have nuclear weapons but notice the analysis of u.s. intelligence is pretty reasonable. there's nothing iran could do with a nuclear weapon pent as a dealternate. and there are two countries in the region that do not want iran to have a deterrent. the two countries that freely use force and violence in the region. primarily, the united states, secondarily, israel. >> there are a lot more countries in the world that don't want iran to -- >> i say these are the major ones. these are the major ones by far. look, there are plenty of countries that are ugly and do ugly things but take a look at the scale. there's no countries that rampage to anything like that extent. furthermore the u.s. is quite open about it. just in the last few days, the ashton carter, commentator is like thomas freedman, our ambassador samantha power have

stated quite openly if we choose we'll use force against iran. there is something called the united nations charter that bars the threat or use of force in international affairs. but u.s. political leaders and leading commentators cross the board saying we're not bound by that. if we decide to use force we'll use force. >> i know uf have argued the u.s. is the world's leading terrorist threat -- >> citing world opinion. >> you've made that statement yourself. >> i agree with it. >> and you've cited other things things drone campaign. >> correct. >> far flung and difficult to access places. >> if they're plotting against u.s., this happens to be the 800th anniversary of magna carta which in a limited way

established what has become a major principle of law namely presumption of innocence until someone is charged in a court of law, with a jury of peers with an act with a criminal act they're innocent. if we feel free oattack people anywhere and -- to attack people anywhere and kill them who we claim might be planning to harm us in the future, if anyone else did we'd nuke them. >> i thawns understand that but think then back to 2001. we shouldn't have been able to take any action against osama bin laden before he attacked -- >> i'm sorry if he was planning an attack we didn't have the right to kill him. >> isn't that the truth with groups in pakistan, be be afghanistan and elsewhere who have threatened to take action

against the u.s? >> if we can legitimately murder people who we think are planning an attack against us, then iran should be perfectly free to kill ashton carter, samantha power thomas freedman, robin wright, all these people who said look we have the right to attack iran. >> they are only saying that if iran develops a nuclear weapon in violation of international treaties that could threaten the world. >> sorry, we do not have the right to use force to attack anyone who we claim is violating an international treaty. if we believed in that right we should be attacking india israel and pakistan. >> what about i.s.i.l. taking over large parts of iraq and syria, should we sit back and let that happens? >> what are the options? we could recognize the enormous role of creating i.s.i.l. in the

first place which is understood by top western commentators, i would quote it if we had time. what should we do now? we should first of all ask why is i.s.i.l. gaining popular support, which it is, you can read that in new york times tim arango's latest column. it is offering something to the sunni populations which they don't otherwise have. if we were capable of destroying i.s.i.l. something worse would come on the ground. something combating i.s.i.l iran and we call that destabilization. when the kurds in iraq were under attack by i.s.i.s. as they called themselves then, they pleaded for support. we didn't give it to them. iran did. >> unfortunately professor we're going to to leave it there. we could have talked longer. it's good of you to address all

these issues. thank you. >> thank you. >> nigeria's president indicates he's open to negotiating with boko haram, in the wake of more bombings in northern nigeria. >> and mama sera is telling me about his first presidential visit to kenya.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news good news for the people of southern yemen as desperately needed food supplies have finally begun arriving. and that amazing video of surfer mick fanning is not stopping people from going in the water in australia. but first our american minute.

new information released in the sandra bland case. a jail booking sheet said bland told officers she had attempted suicide earlier there year, after the loss of a baby. dash cam video avenues the other video released might have been doctored. charging dylann roof on hate crime charges. 33-count indictment punishable with death or life imprisonment. among other charges arraf is charged with obstruction of religious rights. ferguson has hired a new interim police chief. andre anderson is a 24-year-old veteran of the glendale, california police department. nigeria's president says he is

willing to negotiate with boko haram for release of the chibok school girls if the rebel group can deliver. he made the comments while on a visit to the u.s. pleenl, in the city of gombe nigeria, twin blasts targeted bus stations in be the area today. at least 13 people were skilled in a marketplace in cameroon. a new human rights report accuses troops and a lied forces with war crimes. forces deliberately attacked civilians burned villages and stole cattle. a spokesman for united nations told al jazeera the claims were baseless. vote on tuesday followed weeks of violence and was boycotted by the opposition, as

haru mutasa reports from bujumbura the opposition is now proposing a unity government. >> reporter: it's late, and we had a chance to talk to the ordinary people on the street. their comments were, it's been weeks, it's been months of violence and political stability. obviously, the election went ahead. the president is going to win a third term, the only thing is to compromise. what is it going to be made up of? is it going to be president key opposition leaders yens who attempted a failed coup in may? what they do know is the president said yes i'm willing to talk about it. i have my third term, on the condition that i stay in rule for five years. if it's easier they might go for it.

>> haru mutasa speaks egg for us. the president is headed to kenya and ethiopia. >> africa is a place of incredible dynamism, some of the fastest growing markets in the world. extraordinary people. extraordinary resilience. and it has the potential to be the next center of global economic growth. >> the presidential spoke at a reception celebrating the african growth and opportunity act. the law allowed sale of african products duty free. the american ambassador to kenya says president obama will not visit his late father's village. but andrew simmons reports that people there hope he will change his mind. >> right now, it is all you hear in this tiny village.

barack obama visited in 2006 when he was a senator. since then, asphalt has been laid on the roads electricity has arrived but some things like education still need much improvement. as senator obama promised, this school is flamed after obama. conditions are poor. his father says only a private school could offer what children need. flex door, this school says the same name. it will change from senator to president should he merely visit here. one obama determines to change the, mama sarah obama was just down the road. obama was just 25 when he first visited mama sarah.

this is the basis of a foundation that has now raised enough donations to rebuild the community schools. all raised by mama sara, who is 97 years old. when he returned to kenya as an adult with an ma ma from hard of. >> his father said he would do a great job in this -- from harvard. >> his father said he would do a great job in this world. . >> looking at early pictures of her step grandson's family she had an observation. >> he's looking old. when i saw him in the white house he told me grandma there's so many issues all over the world i have to judge on. that is why i'm going gray. his hair is white now. >> reporter: mama sarah wants

her legacy to be better education for all. down the road, a poor boy called barack obama no relation goes home with a father who wants to believe that his son can get a better education. andrew simmons, al jazeera kagelo, western kenya. the u.n. food program plans to bring more food aid to yemen later this month. >> we're ready to scale this up. we need to be able to bring in the supplies on the ships but also to get access via land through our partners there on the ground to make sure those who are really in need are getting the food assistance. >> one of the are organization's supply ships finally was able to dock in aden yesterday. first time since the saudi led compare began in march.

filled with foot. four newborn babies were among rescued off the coast of libya. in all 414 people were saved in four rubber dinkies. they were taken to the italian town of lampedusa. 2015 has seen a number of swimmers being bitten by sharks. most of this year's encounters have happened along the outer banks of flk. but the last fatal shark attack in the united states was in hawaii in 2013. as much as we focus on sharks astacking humans the reality is that sharks face a much greater threat from us. in tonight's off the rarity segment the value of shark fins, ama boatin reports from ghana where shark fins keep the fishermen in business.

>> fishermen in the western region of ghana say they sell the meat locally. shark fin soup is a chinese dell can acy. candelicacy. >> when white people cook and eat it they say it gives them strength and long life. other fish doesn't have that, which is why shark is more expensive than other types of fish. >> reporter: yao says depending on the season he can caxcatch up to 50 slarks in one month. he gets 50 kiloper fin. sometimes catch dolphin which they use as bait for sharks. conservationists say they are both supposed to be protected because they are migratory species. according to the marine biologist the killing of sharks

is on the rise. but it's not a government priority. >> because of the need for food, so it's overlooked. in fact the dolphins are even being used as food now directly. the meat is being smoked and consumed which is definitely not right. because of food insecurity, it's making it difficult to enforce these rules. >> ghana's fish commission denies that dolphins are being caught. as for sharks, the commission says the fishermen are making use of the whole sharks, rather than discarding the bodies at sea. >> we are talk about the active fishing fleet. this is an issue if shark

finning is the treat that is giving money. maybe we should, i mean those countries that are buying should stop. >> fish stocks are declining and fishermen are saying they are doing what they can to survive. conservation is clear that in the end it is not just fish but also humans that will suffer the consequences. al jazeera, in the western region of ghana. >> the foreign museum of natural history keeps track of shark attacks around the world. 73 attacks throughout the world four were fatal 69 were not. florida saw the greatest number, 28 hawaii, seven, south carolina five, california and north carolina each had four. the three fatalities last year included two in australia and one in south africa. but people are much more dangerous to sharks. the world wildlife fund says

about 100,000 sharks are killed each year by humans. jeff corwin is a well-known wildlife biologist and the host of animal mysteries. focus on sharks attacking humans but as i just mentioned humans are killing tens of millions of shark for their fins every year. and this tradition of finning is especially brutal. >> absolutely it is incredibly brutallal, because there is very little value from harvesting these fins as was early described, that spaghetti like structure which is cartilage which is believed in asian communities especially in china to have a medicinal quality to it, thought only is that incorrect and a fallacy the actual removing of those fins

means that 90% of the animal is wasted sinks to the bottom and has a miserable watery grave. >> they don't even use the rest of the shark for food. a lot of people say who cares if we are killing these predators? there is really a negative domino effect when sharks are taken out of an ecosystem. >> absolutely. there is a tremendous and dramatic ripple effect when you remove sharks. keep in mind, sharks have been on our planet for hundreds of millions of years. they are time tested, they have survived five significant extinctions in our planet, when you go to a lagoon, and there are no sharks, that ecosystem is on the balance. sharks play the role of the apex predator. they are the wolves of the yellowstone, they are the lions

of the african savannah. without them these communities are in distress. >> they have a fairly low reproductive rate. so with the number of sharks that are being killed and it's soared over the past decades how endangered are they? >> you bring up an an excellent point. tuna their reproductive window can be as little as one to two years to as little as tief five years depending on the species. there are some sharks that don't begin reproducing until they are 80 years old. the shark species is not capable of biologically reproducing itself with its mate, until they are 80 years old. we are harvesting them until

they have had a chance to reproduce. they are unsustainably harvested. you touched on average. in a year we're losing between 75 million to 150 million individual sharks. that's a number that pushes the species beyond its carrying capacity to survive and recover. >> and i know there are some laws out there to protect them. but how much can really be done? because shark fin is among the most expensive seafood in the world and as we just saw in that story about ghana for some fishermen it is an issue of subsistence. >> it's all about three things i think. you can look at it as this. it's about awareness it's about attitude and it's about enforcement. awareness and education enlightening people on the fact you are basically eating an expensive bowl of soup that gives you nothing medically knoll immediate is nanny nothing

with regard to nutrition. it comes down to better understanding the roles of sharks and their ecosystems. the other thing is in new england, where i live, we have seen a dramatic change in our attitude of where peter benchley wrote the book, sharks are respected then. then enforcement, you can go to costa rica, the cocos islands a national park celebrated from the great swarms of thousands and thousands of hammer heads yet they have very little power to enforce the laws to keep taiwanese fishermen from over-fishing the area and central america. >> it's terrible, great for you to join us jeff corwin thank you. >> thank you.

>> surfer mick fanning says it may be a while before he goes back in, after being attacked by a shark. andrew thomas reports from sydney. >> in about three days it's become the most enthralling shark attack. more people surf in australia than anywhere else. of 20 attacks in australia so far this year the only proved fatal was on a surf he. that hasn't put many surfers off. will swanson who was in fact himself still out on wednesday wrote about the thrill of flogge you might be killed is part of the appeal. >> there's a shark attack on this beach three or four years ago. and the very next morning we were all out surfing in the same spot.

and it was frightening and it was spooky but that fear and that spookiness was part of the attraction for sure. >> but although the number of shark attacks is still very small in australia its rising. five were killed in the 12 months to february. how to avoid being next is a familiar topic. bait and kill the sharks. that's what the state government of western australia did in 2014 after a spate of attacks. the conservationists were outraged and the cull of big sharks are now on hold. the shark nets are popular on beaches but they can trap and kill other sea life and are best in bays that are not great for surfing. a known big one getting close to shore aerial surveillance can help but it's piecemeal. affixed to surf boards or nearby

motorizeed craft. ultimately if people enter the shark's environment they are committing a risk. don't get into the ocean in the first place even if the waves in the pool aren't quite the same. andrew thomas, al jazeera sydney. >> intense heat is baking much of the u.s. and europe. coming up how 2015 is turning out to be a record year for high temperatures. and tomorrow at 9:00, donald trump takes his anti-immigrant message to the border of mexico. how his campaign is being viewed south of the border.

>> a united nations official is warning that this year's conference in paris will be the last meaningful attempt to reach agreement on climate change. the goal is to prevent warming of more than 2° centigrade or

3.6° fahrenheit. >> it continues to be a realistic goal. science says that it continues to be a realistic goal. science says that we still have the opportunity to get to 2°. science also says however that we are quickly running out of time. >> reporter: the conference will be held in december. much of southern europe is the in the grip of a heat wave with daytime temperatures topping 100° fahrenheit. claudio lavango reports. >> cooling down, on the menu in rome's zoo the animals are struggling to cope, the heat wave which has hit the last three weeks. humans are not keeping so well either. experts say june was the hottest on record and 2015 is on its way to become the hottest year on

record. >> translator: the length of the latest heat wave in europe is extraordinary. it started in july and it feels more like 122. we don't know when it will end. >> fortunately there are many ways to cool down in rome. one of the best ways is to stay an unplanned bath or shower in one of the many fountains here. in serbia, loams escape the heat by dipping in a mineral spring. while in spain the third heat wave of the summer. in roam the civil agency distributes bottles of water but even that provides a temporary respite from the heat. overnight, the temperatures don't go below 28° be sent cent

centigrade. keep a cool head for the rest of the surge. claudio levanga, al jazeera rome. >> how the oldest koran was traced back over 1300 years.

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>> a new crew is approaching the international space station tonight. the three members of the crew made up of an american, russian and japanese astronaut blasted off this afternoon. if everything remains on schedule the crew should dock at the station in a little more than an hour. now our global view segment a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various world events. kenya reacted with fury after an invitation to president obama to

an event they called it offensive posting messages like, i can't understand how someone can come and invite new your house. kenya is a sovereign state and we should be the one inviting them, not the other way around. the jerusalem post has an opinion piece simply titled, "tend osyria." in the writer, calls bashar al-assad a survivor and credits russia and iran for helping him. the deal that brought about the iran nuclear agreement the world should be ashamed that syria is on the brink of collapse. finally, canada's globe and mail shows pluto and putin side by side. which of its subjects the caption is about?

chinese artist and activist ai weiwei can travel once again. four years ago he was charged with tax evasion he has long claimed the charges were as a result of his political cavism. what may be the world's oldest fragments of the koran have been found by the university of birmingham in england. as phil lavelle reports they are believed to be at least 1300 years old. >> every now and again comes something that not only excites historians, it thrills them. >> really it is quite startling. >> you can see why they're pleased. some of the oldest fragments of the koran ever discovered, around 1400 years of age. written on sheep or goat skin. you are looking at something scribed around the time islam

was born. >> given the dating, within 20 years of the prophet's deft, the scribe could have known the prophet. if he didn't know the prophet he may well have known somebody who had known the prophet. >> what's remarkable is that these fragments have been in the university's archives for decades. probably since around siem around the 1930s. and it was only when a researcher asked to look at them she realized they were much older than anyone realized. the rest is, quite irlerl, history. alba was that student. she knew she was looking at something very unusual. >> i knew it was very old because of the writing because of the style of the script it is very, very early. >> academics always knew they had something precious in the vault, that is not a surprise. but finding out how old how

precious thanks to radio carbon dating that came as a welcome shock. >> we knew it was old but we had absolutely no idea it was going to prove to be so early just contemporary of the life of the prophet or a few years older. >> it is definitely one of the oldettes and within hours of going public the university has already started receiving enormous cash offers. >> are you going to keep hold of it? >> i believe we are going to keep hold of it. it's going to continue to be here in the cambridge library at the university for foreseeable future. >> the public and one of the buyers can view it in person through october. phil lavelle birmingham. >> i'm antonio mora. thank you for watching. we'll see you in an hour. the greek parliament, round of

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