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there is al jazeera america. new opposition this hour to the nuclear deal with iran. take a look at these live pictures now. where senator bob menendez is announcing his opposition. the democrat has been a harsh critic of the white house, but insists that is not what he is behind this decision. earlier today, the chairman of the foreign relations committee also said he would vote no. he joins almost all other republicans on that side of the issue. mike ma kera is live with us, mike, you have been watching to what senator menendez has been saying so why. why is he opposed to the deal? is. >> well, these are arguments with i have heard before. it's military applications,

siting a secret facility, it was secret called parching within iraq, he says it is important to know how far iran had gotten towards their ability to weapon nice and harness power for military purposes. he says it allows the ballistic program to go forward. that can reach key allies within the middle east. key allies of the united states, including israel. he says the break out time after 15 years and this is a very familiar argument as well, goes down to just act zero. remember, the stated goal and what the obama administration says it has accomplished, is extending that break out time, essentially the time that iran can break it's agreement and race towards developing a nuclear weapon, the administration says this deal brings it to about a year, and even by the president's own admission, by the end of the expiration, by the end of the duration of this deal, that break out time is essentially down to zero. menendez says he supports the

president, he is a dome from the state of energy. he says he sup forked president obama about 98% of the time, but this time it is just too important. this is one of the most serious nonprolive ace arms issues of our time. it is not an issue of supporting or opposing the president. this issue is much greater, and graver than that. once upon time, he was the chairman of a the foreign relations committee, since that time, two things have happened, number one, domes lost the majority, he was the ranking dome, but then he was indicted on corruption charges having to step down from that post. he is still considered an influential voice. so mike, talk to us about senator bob corker what are his reasons for voting no, are they similar to what we with have heard from? >> largely the same, corkser

a republican from tennessee. the chairman of the committee a bone fied influential voice the author of the legislation that will be debated when congress does come back in session next month. whether or not it is approving or disapproving what the president does. corker wrote an ad today it reads in park, rather than end the enrichment program over time, this deal industrialized the program, the leading state sponsor of terror im, for a deal that must be built on verification and not trust, the inspections process is deeply flawed. so he is coming out against this, as you reported quite likely that every one of the 54 republican senators are going to oppose this deal. two problem for them and the problem for opponents is going to require more than that, going to require two-thirds of the senate, eventually, and ultimately, for they are going to thwart the will in getting this deal

through congress. >> okay, mike for us, in washington, appreciate it. retired army general william gnash supports the nuclear deal. i asked him yesterday why he feels it is the best way to stop from obtaining nuclear weapons. it is reasonable to assume that iran cannot make significant progress towards nuclear weapons. it is my hope that in that time, other actions, other behavior norms by both the united states, our european allies and iran will lead to subsequent agreements on broader issues. and that we with can step back from potential confrontation. i would also tell you, i am

convinced the inspection regime to work, we now know that the inspection regime in iraq worked because it told us that he did not -- that sadaam did not have nuclear weapons. this type around will be even better at detection. >> just today we learned that 340 rabbis are now urging congress to support the nuclear deal with iran. and one of those is retired navy admiral. he also is a co signa tore to this open letter and he was asked why he supported this. let me read it to you, and if you want to add, it is a life long zionist devoted to israel and a retired officer and a rabbi for over 40 years, an operating without incity constitutional incustomer presences i have a unique perspective, those of us who love israel in the united states, are not of one

mind and one voice in this matter. i thought it was important to represent some of the diversity within the american jewish community. i know you support this, do you understand the ready sense, in fact, the strong disagreement with this. by the israeli government in the voice of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu? >> first of all, to the rabbi, who you just quoted i say hoorah. and very proud. i am sorry it has become in some people's mind a jewish nonjewish issue.

i look at it as a military issue. he is the same fellow that told us if we attack iraq, the middle east would be in great shape today. so his was with come and judge moment is not one that i would put a lot of countenance into. and i know that there are many people within the israeli government and israeli citizens that see this as a positive step forward. and as a nuclear power itself, i think israel needs to be very careful, especially prime minister needs to be very careful about pronouncements and interfering with american politics. >> well, general nash, says there is a huge potential for business and diplomacy between iran and the united states to grow if this deal goes through. taye police are pouring over surveillance video today. trying to find a man at least 20 people dies.

he is seen with a backpack, and then without id, thailand's prime minister has urged the public to stay calm. >> picking up the pieces. this is the shopping district that seen dramatic political conflict several times before. but nothing like this. dozens were killed here, among them victims from the malaysia, hong kong, and singapore. many were injured. it was an attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible. at a high profile target. the shrine. >> the government urgently to restore a sense of security for the public and millions of tourists. >> in our country, there are individuals or groups of individual who are seeking to destroy the country.

the government will work to find these perpetrators and bring justice to anyone involved as soon as possible. >> this footage shows the moment the bomb went off. five-kilograms that sources have toad al jazeera was with deliberately detonated. within hours of blasts the military run government was blaming it's political enemies. now, it is asking the country to unite, and stay calm. assure the public. what happened let by gones by by gones but after this, we with do our best to make sure that everybody is safe. >> but within an hour of that speech, this happened at the mean river depressant port, another high profile tourist target.

the grenade landed in the water and no one was injured. back at the shrine, things are slowly getting back to normal. the roads have been reopened but this is as close as we can get to the shrine itself. security has been tightened as promised. but way with have seen teams arrive as they try to get to the bottom of how and why this brutal attack happened. thai authorities won't say how soon they will be able to announce the results of their investigation. >> vironica, al jazeera, bangkok. >> u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off a dramatic fall today in china stock market. the dow is trading slightly lower right now after the two leading exchanges closed out more than 6%. european and japanese shares saw modest declines. search teams in indonesian say they have recovered the black box and the bodies of the victims from a plane crash on sunday. weather conditions have been hampering the search efforts. bodies of the passengers and

crew will be transported by helicopter, because of the remote location of the site. new help for thousands of firefighters trying to stop the flames in the west up next, soldiers are set to join the fight. also, race on the campaign trail. how a group of activists are trying to hold presidential candidates to account.

some 200 will head to the front lines in the next few days. there are more than 100 fires burning right now. along the idaho and oregon border. it is 90% contained we are told after burning some 400 square miles. presidential candidate now says he will meet with black lives matter activists. they have been challenging the vermont center and other candidates over the policies towards race. sat down with one of them to talk about the group's goals. >> vermont center plowed his way through the crowd to end the corn dog stands at the iowa state fair. a stop on the way to the white house. less than four monos into the campaign, the 73-year-old vying for the them nation has become a rock star. while he has been attracting the biggest crowds he is also

attracting some surprising criticism. from a movement called black lives matter. which grew out of the deadly police shootings of michael brown, eric garner, and tamaris to make a few. >> it is even in des moines iowa the capitol of a state with a population of only 3%, according to the 20. census. activists has helped organize several black lives protests in des moines. we met with her in her home. >> i don't want people to think that we are not angry, because way are. and i don't want to people that our anger permits violence.

because it doesn't. i also don't want people to think that compliance is the way to go about things. for my work, i want to get black folk as sense of belonging. kia explained that she wants people to feel comfortable calling attention to what she sees a as crisis in america right now. this is talking about white people. so i can work that out and have things be okay. i can talk to black folks. >> you might think this one way, but i won't shame you for thinking that way. she says the tangible success rides on what got it started in the first place.

correcting political interaction with african-americans. when do you know you have the w? the wayne? >> i -- when my people do not have to be -- or identify police care. so when i am not afraid of the police any more, and i can be around police, and i don't have to identify police as people that hurt me, than i know there has been something that has worked behind that to make sure that's safe. >> she says she is not hearing enough concrete solutions on that despite his history. having worked with movement groups and having participated in the march on washington in 1963. why pick on him?

>> for me, i don't think i am picking on him. the same thing can apply for other folks. we need you to be direct. >> a lot of people are thinking about the truth. >> as we listen to the speech on the sate fairgrounds what he heard from the candidate trying to win her very first presidential vote, clearly shocked her. i want to thank the people of iowa for their courage, in voting for obama in 2008. >> [laughter] >> oh, no. >> why are you reacting like this? >> he is thanking white people for voting for a black person.

white people get a pat on the back for voting for a black person. white people are constantly getting pats on the back, patted oen the back, thank you iowa for voting for a black person. for me, when i hear that, it's kind of a turn off. i try to ask about the criticism. they first need to address the issue institutional racism and he will be the president to tackle it. a criminal justice system which and a heck of a lot better than the system today, so the issues that have to be focused on, easy to give speeches that is hard to do i will do it. >> he has tried to address the issue, he has hired simone sander as 25 year over can american woman as his national press secretary, and he recently issued a paper on race and inequality. the work of those like her

has begun to matter. at least to the one candidate who they have worked hardest to reach. michael shore, al jazeera. jonathon martin sat down with the mayor a theys they still have a long way to go. >> you often hear people say new orleans has come back, it has rebounded and before resilient, how do you qualify the progress a decade later? we suffered after september 11th, so our economic health was terrible. literally when we got to where we needed to be. so i think it is a mible that not only is the city standing but it is thriving and i think people have reasonable expectations.

where everything in the world is perfect, and somehow they are going to solve 40 or 50 years of problems that have been happening in major american cities across the country, so qualified as basically saying we have completely turn otherses around, headed in the right direction, we have done the hard work of recreating the deep institutional challenges that we had in healthcare and education. contaminating rivered but there are fears, the pristine looking waters may still hold dangers. plus, safety concerns on the mound after another propitcher is hit in the head with a baseball.

is recovering today afterer becoming the latest pitcher to get hit in the head with a lean drive. the team says mitchell has a fractured nose, but he appears to have escaped more serious injury. the play that mccann said made him sick to his stomach happened in the second inning. he is 103-mile per hour

liner, ricocheted off the head of 24-year-old pitcher. the team says he went to new york presbyterian hospital where a doctor diagnosed him with a small nasal fracture, but no other serious damage. after the gape, it seems like your heart just drops into your stomach and you are scared for the kid, and you see blood coming out. he the third pitch tore take a batted ball to the head, an occupational hazard that goes back do the herballiest days and hasn't changed much. while these are low in frequency, they can be quite devastating. it ended the careers of pitchers like herb score, the oakland a's needed surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. aroldis clapman needed gruesome staples.

baseball approved a padded baseball hat for pitchers. reliever alex for rose was an early adopt ever but no be follows suit. well, authorities say the water quality in colorado is back to normal after that toxic waste spill two weeks ago. some residents are not so sure. jacob ward is in colorado. >> if you were to pull up in a tour bus, having never been here before, and knowing nothing about the recent history, you would think there wasn't anything that had gone wrong here in the last couple of weeks. much less this stuff has washed down this river. of course scientists are trying to grapple with what has happened here. the surge of this stuff has moved through here, but the

question now is what are the long term effects. the water here is toxic or any way dangerous, instead it is the long term effects that people get to look at, in this particular case, the hope here is perhaps that this will draw attention to the need for better on going monitoring. in one respect, this was good, and that is that our water quality has been going down. we haven't had a lot of action, i hope this will catalyze this. >> when you speak to the fishing community, which is one of the main stays of this place, they talk object almost exhaustive terms about what it is to keep the minds that are upstream and downstream from here. 300-gallon as minute coming out of these mines carrying

terrible stuff with them. the problem with the people we with have spoken to is that you cannot just go in the as a community and begin cleaning it up. doing so takes on a liability that very few people are willing to entertain. as a result, it falls to government agencies the epa, and that is sort of where we arrive here. they have nonbeen administrative tools or the resources to get this exactly to the place that people would like it to be. >> a book can mean clean water for millions of people, it has pages that can be torn out to filter water. each page contains tiny particles of silver and copper. in trials the paper successfully removed more than 99% of those bacteria. that's all of our time, thank you for joining us, the news

cons next live from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. on the front line of the immigration crisis as european countries struggle to cope with record arrivals. bangkok bombing they believe this is the person that set off explosives killing 22. new elections look increasingly likely in turkey. plus. >> request you guess what is the world first airport to be completely ped