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white house. the promises and the challenges for president obama, and china's xi jinping. plus high and dry. "techknow"'s phil torres takes us to the panama canal where mother nature is wreaking havoc on a major expansion. well right now pope francis has just wrapped up his final event in new york city. a mass at madison square garden came to an end just a short time ago. ♪ papal pageant trry some of the challenges living in a city the size of new york.

>> but big cities also conceal the faces of all those people who don't appear to belong. or are second class citizens, in big cities beneath the roar of traffic, the rapping sense of change, so many people, who feel they have no right to be there, no right to be part of the city. >> and going on to say that too often many of those face he are taken for granted. reverend, derek harkiins. thank you for rushing over here. >> glad to be here. >> it's a differently feeling when you were there. what was the feeling inside the garden tonight? >> i think a lot of people made the point, it is this is a pass

pastoral visit. this is the church, the people who fill those pews on sunday morning. it was a truly embracing and warm feeling. >> the feeling, you yourself w f were not a catholic. >> the challenges, the diversity was a powerful message that you're right spoke to not just thricts buare catholics but thoe not of faith. i've had the privilege of being around whether other popes have been in the country but i dare

say, this is quite different. >> how different is this compared to all other visits? >> with all due respect to his predecessors, their primary concern was what it was that was needed to sustain the church and to speak specifically into the issues that pertain to the catholic church. that is a priority of his no doubt but he certainly is speaking to the rest of us profoundly emphatically and winsomely. >> very busy schedule for the pope, riding in the pope mobile and the fiat. what stands out to be as something that people will remember after he is gone? >> i think all of those had a uniqueness to them in a particular way. first of all going to harlem, to a school that represents the fact that a number of catholic schools are obviously having their struggles but to be with the community that represented

the polar opposite of the quarters of power that he was in if at the u.n. or in congress. and of course at 9/11 i don't know if you could get to a more poignant somber place and to see him talking to police officers and firefighters was just truly moving in so many ways. >> he's turning in for the night and then bright and early he's on a train down to philadelphia. what do you think we'll see down in philadelphia? is this message going to continue? i know one of the things he's slated to talk about is religious freedom which is a loaded political issue here in the united states. >> it has, it's a loaded political term, and on both sides of the issue if you want to put that it succinctly, i think the fact that religious freedom is a principle that's engrained in our community, but the brad exan expanse, one's

religious freedom can't encroach on another's varying perspectives around what that means, we'll continue to talk about it because he has certainly raised it as an issue. >> he certainly has. thank you so much for heading over here right after today's mass. thank you so very much for joining us. addressing 150 heads of state at the u.n, pope francis's message was heard loud and clear. john terret was there. quite impactful. >> reporter: adam it was. very different than the one he used to address congress. the pope spoke in spanish so that really slowed things down a little bit i think. but social justice and inequality, his main them was that everybody in the world should have a loam, everybody should have drinking water, food

on the table, education and including especially girls who the pope said often get forgotten and the right to religious freedom and spiritual spirituality. this pope is passionate about climate change. he truly believes that we can put the problem behind us if we're smart about it. his message was that humanity deserves and has a right in fact to the climate, to you know, ecology and in fact he mentioned the word ecology and that kind of thing 16 times in the course of his speech. >> translator: in effect a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the seclusion of the weak.

and the disadvantage. >> reporter: environment and environmental, that's the word he mention16 times, adam. >> the recent agreement reached on the nuclear question in a sensitive region of asia and the middle east is proof of the potential of political goodwill and of law, exercised with sincerity, patience, and constancy. i express my hope that this agreement will be lasting and efficacious and bring forth the desired fruits with the cooperation of all the parties involved. >> reporter: and that was the pope talking about iran, another issue that he is passionate about. is ending nuclear proliferation. and we know that he supports the deal recently signed between the

five permanent members of the security council and germany and tehran, and that ws him talkingg about that deal, what inflations can accomplish when they cooperate. adam. >> our coverage of the pope's visit, including the sexual scandal in the church, how those that kept it quiet, the high financial price the church is still paying for now. also stay with us, for complete coverage of pope francis, extended live coverage. turning now to the other big story coming out of washington. a political bombshell from house spieker john boehner. he announced he is resigning at the end of the month. libby casey at the hill with the reaction this took a lot of people by surprise.

>> reporter: it certainly did adam. while this is something he was contemplating for a while, this decision seemed like a snap one. this career caps two and a half decades in congress and more than five as speaker of the house. a shocking announcement from the man second in line to the presidency. >> last night i started to think about this and this morning i woke up and i said my prayers as i always do. and i decided, you know, today's the day i'm going to do this. as simple as that. >> speek boehner saispeaker boed he had determined to do this in november. but after the speech of pope francis he moved up the timing, his last day is october 30th. some of the kindest reaction come from political leaders he had long sparred with. >> john boehner is a good man. he is a patriot. he cares deeply about the house, an institution in which he has served for a long time.

he cares about his constituents. and he cares about america. >> reaction from republicans mixed. >> the speaker made a very humble and class move today. >> reporter: but others like presidential candidate senator marco rubio says it's time to turn the page. >> adjustments ago, speaker boehner announced that he will be resigning. [cheering and applause] >> another candidate senator ted cruz blasted the speaker accusing him of working across party lines. >> and then presumably to land on a pushy k street job after joining with the democrats to implement all of president obama's priorities. that is not the behavior one would expect of a republican speaker of the house. >> the speaker's decision may have been spontaneous but its timing is significant. congress faces a budget showdown next week, republicans

threatening to shut down the government if planned parenthood is funded. but now, boehner can head that off. passing a short term funding bill instead. >> we will continue to negotiate with speaker boehner and you and we will find out together what comes next in republican caucus. >> just who will next lead house republicans is up in the air. speaker boehner is endorsing the current second in command, california's kevin mccarthy but conservative republicans play rebel and advance some of their own setting off a power struggle. if boehner had decided to stick around he would have faced a challenge from the party's right flank. a threat he says he could have defeated but he questioned the cost. >> you know, it's -- i really don't want the institution hurt and i don't want my colleagues hurt. i don't want to put my

colleagues through all of this, for what? >> now the most powerful republican in washington can think of what's next? >> zipity do-dah. >> to give you an example, classy and humble, leading a revolt to try to overthrow speaker boehner. this move by the house speaker while he hopes it will preserve a sense of unity among republicans just shows how divisive capitol hill is these days and certainly doesn't look like this move will mend any of these fences. adam. >> say what you will, he certainly is passionate about this job. libby cas, in washington, libby, thank you. (f). >> republican strategist and a congressional campaign manager, did either one of you see this

coming in the immediate near future? >> adam i did absolutely. no i didn't! >> i'll say this, i said this earlier to some people. i was surprised by the timing. not surprised at the act itself. i was actually at dinner in new york and we were talking about just this in the vote coming up. about there was a bill put in a while ago, which was a vote of confidence in the speaker, and the question becomes whether or not he did it today so he can carry the burden of what's going to go on for a potential shutdown for planned parenthood, for the debt ceiling. john boehner can take all the weight of that get through it and whoever is the new speaker doesn't have to carry that load. >> is this a careful strategy on the part of republicans? >> they are going to put through a clean bill, but it is going to be a temporary bill. let's remember whoever the next speaker is will contend with this in december. it is a temporary bill they're

going to fast and not going to save the next speaker from having to make very difficult decisions which libby mentioned with a very fractured caucus. >> four days ago -- >> the job left is herding cats. who wants that job. >> are the cats getting wilder, if you want to use your cat analogy the cats are all over the place. >> democratic districts we held, more republicans elected in the house than we had since the 1930s. >> is this the beginning of the death of the mainstream moderate republican. >> absolutely not. >> can they survive this? someone hav has described this s almost a coup to overthrow the speaker. >> the only reason i would ever have been a coup and i disagree with this concept is if he didn't have the votes to stay out of office. some say he fell on a grean gre.

if he's wounded he can't lead the way he wants to lead. so what's it worth to him? >> john mccain came out saying we have to stop this infighting. >> i have to disagree, i think party is very wounded very fractured, and they have a tough time going forward. this is not just in congress and in the house, we have establishment republicans on the one side, donald trump, carl youy fiorina and ben carson, you have hawks on the one side, you see this over and over again with the party they have got to coalesce. i think john boehner did fall on the sword for the team but he also saw the writing on the wall. let's not forget there was a

vote in july to oust him. >> he survived that. >> he did. but we don't know if he has the votes to survive this, we don't know that. >> you start bringing the inlaws in and the outlaws in and all kinds of things happen. bigger family, family squabbles, they get together and they move forward for the good of the country. >> the republicans are very successful now -- >> since president obama has been in office, the democrats have lost more seats than they have historically. >> they don't have 60 they need in the senate and unfortunately this is not just a squabble. we are talking about the house that can't even get together and fund the federal government temporarily. they can't pass a highway bill. i mean these are big issues. they have been trying to get rid of obamacare, how many times ob? this is not just a family

squabble these are very serious issues. >> the last time they had 60 votes was about a day and a half, not republican supporter and those democrats that voted to make this happen are leaving -- >> let me jump in real quick. what's going to happen in the near future? obviously we need to pick a new speaker of the house. >> it was eric cantor's job before he was ousted in the primary last year, kevin mccarthy is new, only been in the house ten years. most people i spoke to say mccarthy will probably be the 2 eafn h 18 he needs to get it. so there are big battles ahead and it's going ton contentious because thito becontentious. >> what is the legacy ever jb? >> the numbers show it's the

strongest house they've had before. >> would you agree? >> he had very good 2010, 2012, but he was unable to turn that into policy wins. as a leader he was unable to herd these cats, to use ob's analogy. >> it's a very big tent, hard to get everybody of everyone inside. jeannie zano and o'brien murray. thanks for coming together to talk politics. >> any time. >> up next, the state dinner for the chinese president and the cyber talk that came before it

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xi, mr. obama called it progress but with xi by his side made his skepticism clear. >> what i say to president xi and the american people is, the question now is, are words followed by actions. and we will be watching carefully to make an assessment as to whether progress has been made in this area. >> reporter: 22 million americans mostly government employees were alleged victims of the recent hack of the office of personnel management. earlier this week, an investigation revealed the hack also included 5.6 million sets of fingerprints. while the white house has been careful not to publicly lay blame, many believe the breach was carried out by chinese interest. for his part, he pledged to hold up his end of the deal. >> investigation assistance and information sharing. >> reporter: this is a state visit. an elaborate form of public

diplomacy, usually reserved for nations that share close ties with the united states. after a three hour dinner thursday night, there are still major problems. among them, the chinese military buildup atop reefs in the south china sea. mr. obama indicated strong disagreement. >> i reiterate the right of all countries to unimpeded commerce. >> six nearby nations claims to all or part of the deputied region. >> islands in the south china sea are china's territory. we have the right to uphold our own territory and lawful and legitimate maritime rights and interests. >> one area of common ground, climate change. the chinese announced the new cap and trade system, and pledged $3.1 billion to help poorer countries move away from

fossil fuels. outside the white house fence xi supporters clashed with supporters of tibet, wieger and others, civil rights, in the rose garden the protest fell on deaf ears. >> we must recognize that countries have different historical processes and realities and we need to respect people of all countries in the right to choose their own development paths independently. >> reporter: and adam on climate change a lot of the activity you see including the announcement by china today is leading up to a major conference on climate change a world wide summit scheduled for paris in december. adam? >> a lot of environmentalists applauding that notion there, mike viqueria, thanks. up next abuse of children by catholic priests. >> the church's first concern as an institution was to protect the priest and secondly to try

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>> this is al jazeera america, live from new york, i'm adam may. john siegenthaler is on assignment. making history. pope francis meets with children at a catholic school in harlem as catholic education in america faces its biggest test yet. priest sex abuse, the case that broke the church wide scandal wide open. and why critics say pope francis is falling short. spiritual bankruptcy, the abuse scandal has been so costly one archdiocese is taking a drastic financial measure but critics call it a cop out. lock step, a move at the panama canal in response to a severe and unrelenting drought. we'll take you there. well, the final scheduled new york appearance of pope francis in just about a half

hour ago he preside oaferred mass beforpreed over a packedma. ♪ >> on top of faith the pope talked about some of the challenges of living in a large city like new york and the many faces of the poor and homeless that often get overlooked. some of the 20,000 inside the garden told us it was an experience they were cherish forever. quite memorable. father thomas reese is the senior analyst for the catholic reporter. joining us from washington, d.c. tonight, father reese, good to have you with us here again. where do we even begin with all of the topics that the pope covered while in new york city on this amazing day where he went from end to end. what do you take away from this visit in new york? what will people remember when he leaves? >> it's been a fantastic visit. i think people will always

remember his pope mobile trip through central park, they'll remember his visit to the united nations and of course his prayer service with all the various religious leaders down there at the site of the 9/11 tragedy. all of this i think made for a spectacular visit, a very moving visit of the pope to new york. >> some of the big issues he talked about, the arms trade, sustainable development, nuclear proliferation, how do you think that the other world cleared take, what do they do with this information regardless of their faith? >> well, it was a very interesting speech that he gave to the united nations. it was a real endorsement of the

united nations. but enough of talk we need to get on to real action. that hit on the areas of peace building in the middle east, his support for nuclear disarmament, his support for the iran nuclear deal with the united states. and then his concern about the economic injustices around the world. he took on the international financial agencies and talked about the abusive lending rates and how they can be crippling to economies. he really was the spokesperson for developing countries, for developing world, and for the people there. the poor people around the world who are left out of the prosperity that some parts of the world have. >> tackling so many serious issues and then stopping,

waving, kissing babies, taking selfies. i thought one of the most memorable moments was whether he walked to that school in harlem, stay with us here, i want your reaction from roxana saberi who was there in the school outside the school when he paid a visit. being. >> reporter: these crowds in east harlem waited patiently for hours to see the man they say speaks for people like them. >> he talk about the schools speech in there, i saw in the congress, he do excellent job in there. and everybody i see the tears whether he's talkings. so beautiful. >> we need some change. maybe this visit can change the way that our politicians see the immigrants. >> when he rode by in his fiat cell phones went up and cheers rang out.

>> holy father we love you! >> students greeted the pope with chants and selfies. in return, the pope asked for a song. ♪ >> reporter: about 70% of the students in this inner city school rely on financial aid. most are black and latino, many are immigrants. fitting on the pope's focus on the poor and the marginalized. later in the school gym pope francis met with refugees and immigrants including these teenagers who play on a soccer team in the bronx. they fled from central america without their parents. they presented him with a ball and a jersey. >> i know it is not always easy to find a new home and new friends. not easy. what has to begin in the beginning, it can be hard and tiring, even a new climate. >> reporter: this group of new

yorkers longed to meet the pope but couldn't. our lady queen of angels school shut down three years ago. they have held their own service every sun in front o sunday in r church and brought a sign. hoping he would see. >> i'm so happy, i don't think he saw me but i saw him. >> how many of this is outreach, hoipg to fold new people into the church and how much of this is actually about social justice? is there a blend here? >> oh, i think this is really about social justice. this is something that the pope takes very personal. after all, he identifies himself as the son of immigrant patients. he knows what it's like to grow up in an immigrant family.

so he's very close to these people. you could see it as he interacted with those children and with the people. he loves children. he loves these -- the poor people. these are the people he's most comfortable with. >> you definitely could see his face light up there when he was talking with some of the students there at the school, when they started singing for him. catholic schools in this country have seen better days. the enrollment numbers, 5 million in the 1960s, just around 2 million now, about 1600 catholic schools have closed in the past ten years. does his visit help bring more people into catholic schools? what does this say about the catholic school system? >> oh it's tragic, it's really sad. the catholic school system was the way in which immigrants rose up, got educations and were able to get into colleges and do very well in this country.

but the catholic school system was built on the nuns on the sisters who did all this work. with really no pay. they got room and board. and now, with so few sisters left in our country, they have to be replaced with lay people. and northbound justice, we have to pay lay people a living wage. because they want to send their kids to college. >> it will be interesting to see -- >> i was going to say we get no money from -- >> it's going to be interesting to see how the church changes to take care of this. sorry to cut you off father. the catholic sex abuse scandal haunts the church. yesterday he spoke of the pain

the church's clergy have had to endure. >> translator: i know that as a presbyteriat, you had to tuiasosopo vulnerable of the members. >> some critics of the church said he should have focused on the victims that have been repeatedly let down by the church. lisa stark looks at the most notorious of priest abuse and the tragic history of the church's missed opportunities. >> in cajun country, sugar cane and months draped oaks are rooted in the landscape. catholicism runs just as deep. but 30 years ago, the actions of one priest gilbert gauthe and the church cover up that followed would test parishioners

faith and in many cases change it forever. >> these were all devout regular catholics but something overwhelmed their devotion and that was messing with their kids. >> in the early 1970s targeting young boys at what was then a catholic orphanage in new orleans. ted was given the privilege of going home with gauthe one night. >> i fell asleep and he had pulled my shirt over my arms so i couldn't move and he had a pillow over my head. and -- you know there was nothing i could do. >> he says after father gauthe raped him came a chilling warning. >> he pulled out a .45 and stuck it in my mouth, he said if you tell anyone, i'll kill you. >> he told a nun.

she said if he repeated it she would smack him in the face. churches would transfer him from one parish to another to another. at one point even appointing him as chaplain for the boy scouts. this church in henry, louisiana was gauthe's stop before his fall from grace. a parishioner who didn't want to be on camera said that father gauthe was very popular. one thing seemed odd, from the moment he came here he began hosting sleepovers for his young altar boys. in 19 flea one of those altar boys broke down confiding in his parents. the diocese can quietly continued, gilbert gauthe became the first u.s. priest to face a trial on sexual abuse charges.

>> the trial here was like a forecast of things to cop. >> jason berry who reported extensively on the case said gauthe molested other than of over 100 boys. >> to protect the priest, and secondly, to try and blanket the facts with silence so that there would be no scandal to the church. >> reporter: as an attorney at the vatican embassy in washington, d.c, rernd thomas doyle was asked to keep an eye on the growing scandal. he says his reports been all the way to rome. doyle and two others involved in the case were so horrified they drafted a first of its kind blooblueprint, warning, time off the essence and estimating a staggering $1 billion in future

damages. in 1985, the document was sent to every catholic bishop in mark. >> i could not believe that the bishops would not respond to this with horror and do the right thing. >> he says the hierarchy did nothing. >> he was like jeremiah at the wall, he was blowing the trumpet saying, you've got to do something about this, they punished him and ousted limb from his job for doing it. >> doyle who eventually left the priesthood, wonders what might have been had the church taken a different path. >> what wasn't counted on was they didn't know everything and they wouldn't be given a pass by the society, by the courts. >> or by their victims. >> or by their victims.

>> it's intolerable, it's a sin and it's a sickness and it's a crime. >> the policy asks for transparency. we asked monsignor bryant. >> these people who might not be falsely accused, but those the church determined should no longer be in ministry. >> that's right, they were removed from ministry. >> three could be abusing other children. >> that is a possibility. >> as for gilbert gauthe, he pled guilty to criminal charges but served just ten years in prison. >> i've heard stories that he's living in texas, i've heard he's in ill health. he basically sort of you know disappeared. >> but there's no erasing what happened for victims such as ted

lachey. >> in order for me to heag heal, heal, ineed accountability. i have no mercy. i would say no prevention, no redemption. >> even alt these year all thesa priest took advantage of a scared little boy, he doesn't believe the church has made amends. lisa stark, al jazeera america, louisiana. the archdiocese in minneapolis is in bankruptcy, seen as avoiding financial responsibility. allen schauffler reports from philadelphia. >> reporter: the 100-year-old cathedral of st. paul, part of the min is indianapolis archdiocese, serving catholics

in 187 parishes. but right next door to the cathedral signs of trouble. the archdiocese selling off valuable real estate. across the street, the chancery is for sale and the archbishop's residence. the archdiocese is legally bankrupt, avoiding a string of trials over past sexual abuse by priests. >> if he considered his main job pedophilia, he was fantastic at it. >> church of the risen savior, he says the abuse started whether he was 13. >> and i started to learn that he was the same with all his victims. that helped a little bit. >> reporter: he sued the archdiocese over what he claimed was repeated abuse by father tom adamson and church failure to

keep adamson away from kids. >> how big they are, how much they own, how much wealth they control, how much land they control. >> reporter: the state supreme court threw out his suit on a technical any cattle. it relied on repressed memories and was filed too long after the alleged crimes were committed. but jim kenan's case pressured the legislature to pass laws to deal with the issue. >> this is painful for so many to see and hear and know. it's what needs to happen. >> state attorney jim adamson has made a career of going after the catholic church. made a fortune, too, about which he is unapologetic. >> i've acquired enough wealth and property to take them on any time of day or night, and they're not going to bury me.

>> before the bankruptcy agreements here the courts forced the archdiocese to release thousands of pages of previously secret documents. that kind of disclosure anderson said, broader in other cases, is the biggest win for abuse survivors. >> in the long arc of time, both legal and moral, they are trying to hide the truth, we're trying to expose it. >> this is the 12th american diocese or archdiocese to file for chapter 11. some proceedings in helena ploonhelenamontana have been fa. others have dragged on for five years with no end in sight. controlling and protecting information on abusers, bankruptcy, agreement in which details have been made public,

legal costs and confidential settlements, total is very high. charles reed sees the bankruptcy trend slowing and worst-case predictions on the church operations not materializing. >> we're not seeing schools closed, churches closed. >> schools and individual parishes are corporate entities separate from archdioceses and not affected by bankruptcy. >> i pray for the silent sufferers, those people who will never hear from them. >> clarlfather charles lockowits bankruptcy here is the best for all sides. disclosure of documents and future transparency both critically important for meaningful change. >> the reality is flip the power differential around and we're the ones who need help. and i think the abuser community

has provided us how we could be helpful to the survivor community. >> some day, not right now, he will return but trust has been broken. >> they are changing and altering and bending the rules. when they should say, we messed up, we are never going to mess up again. >> meanwhile the selloff continues in the very shadow of st. paul's. allen schauffler, al jazeera, st. paul, minnesota. >> that issue is far from resolved. third rail explores the role of faith in u.s. politics and the race for white house. host ali velshi spoke to attorney allen dershowitz. >> is that not shorthand for this is the set of my beliefs? >> no three are not and you can

express your sets of beliefs in a way that is relevant from society, not saying they came from god, god told me to run for president, that's not appropriate dialogue. >> a surprising number have said, god told me to run for president. >> i know, i know. god has better things to do than decide which candidates, as abraham lincoln once set, the question is not whose side is god on, but are we on god's side? if you want to be on god's side do it privately, live your life in a godly way but don't bring religious into politics. >> a special edition of third rail airs tonight at 11:30 eastern on al jazeera america. next up drying up. how a drowt drought is causing problems for the panama canal just as it's about to expand.

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>> it's been a season of severe drought, not just in the u.s., but places where woourt is usuallwater isusually plentiful. it really couldn't come at a worse time, for the canal authority, it's rushing to create a new expansion hoping to bring megasize vessels through the locks. "techknow"'s phil torres reports on panama's sudden water shortages. >> wow that's big. just after noon on the parn mawa

canal, here is a container ship. this is a 58,000 ton vessel, 50 megaton ships cross the canal every day. each one needs 52 million gallons to transit through the canal. that's a lot of water. but in 2015, panama, like much of the region, is experiencing a terrible drought. >> have you ever seen it like this? >> i've never seen the water level so low. >> rojelio nunez is our captain. he knows this is not normal. >> what is it like? >> in the rain season, it rains every day. now we go for weeks without a drop of rain. >> does it concern you? >> not only me, everybody in panama is very concerned. >> you depend on water for your livelihood. >> that's right, panama depends on water. >> they stand like ghosts,

suddenly caught in the harsh hard light of day. acres of living forest now exposed for the first time in 100 years. >> this is the first time that wherever you go you find all thee trunks that supposedly have disappeared forever but now they are rising. >> the expansion of the canal which bring more and even larger ships here and that means more water will be needed. it's looking like it may be ships versus people for panama. >> here we are, with an upgraded canal for bigger ships, which are going to demand more water and as our urban areas along the canal get better we have to face a future. what is mother nature telling us, are we going to have fluff water, are we going to have el ninos more frequent? >> what will panama do? you can catch phil's full report, at 6:30 eastern, on

saturday. what happened at the hajj? antonio mora is here. >> suggested the pilgrims themselves were in part to blame. as the saudi government is taking more heat for not ensuring the safety of 2 million worshipers. iran is the toughest critic, saying the saudi holy family is incapable of managing the event. today hundreds of protestors took to the streets of tehran, chanting death to the saudi dynasty. split over who is to blame and the saudi government is launc tg to find out who is responsible. >> i'm adam may, we leave you with some of the most memorable

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