katty kay -- katty: i am katty kay for the "diane rehm show."ble] katty: it was great that we had that congressman collin. -- call in. alan: and you knew he knew what he was talking about. katty: i've got to run because of got to go rescue her. thank you so much for coming. alan: thank you. >> on "history bookshelf," here from the best writers of the past decade at 4:00 p.m. eastern, and to hear more stories anytime, visit our website. you're watching "american historytv," all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> considered under rated -- underrated by many firstly historians, carolyn harris took up paintings and she was interested in women's issues and help raise funds for johns hopkins university's, on the condition that it it women. she was the first president general of the daughters of the american residue -- american revolution until she died in the white house. caroline harrison, on c-span's original series "first ladies: influence an image." examining the private and personal lives of the women who were in the white house. on sunday as

katty: thank you.merican officials are describing talks with iran over curbing their nuclear program as not quite there yet. they did not meet another target date for a deal. they are still divisive on the number of issues. i spoke with a senior associate of the conglomerate for national peace. i feel like this is a story of broken deadlines. read the tea leaves for me. what is going on? >> the iranians want the sanctions to be immediately lifted. they want enhanced verification inspections for the regime, and they want to the human arms embargo lifted. katty: that is their new point? >> they're trying to squeeze as many concessions as possible in the last days, but the bottom line is that iran needs to deal for three reasons. they're losing hundreds of billions of dollars because of the economic sanctions, because of the drop in oil prices, and trying to restrain the regime of assad. if the deal happens in the next 48 hours or later, they need this deal economically. katty: you don't read too much int

katty: why?n though the economic situation is so bad and the prime minister has now agreed to austerity measures, why is he still so popular? >> because he gives hope. it is up to the greek people to decide. the prime minister has high popularity. i have to tell you that there is a big convergence of opinion over a great part of the parties in greek parliament that gives him extra power in negotiations and bringing agreements. katty: what is that convergence? that greece has been badly treated by the european union? >> it is the feeling increase right now. on the other -- that is the feeling in greece right now. on the other hand we have to do things to get back on a normal track. the hope is that through this pain, the humanitarian crisis and difficulties, we will have -- katty: thank you for joining me. now, and amazing medical first. surgeons in the night at kingdom have performed the first of by on it -- bionic eye implant. our medical correspondent was given exclusive access to the operation

katty: thank you for coming in.f the chinese wells weren't enough, the greek prime minister has promised european editors proposals tomorrow. that is the deadline. the head of the imf said greece is in a situation of crisis and the eventual institution cannot bend its rules. heaven hewitt has --gavin hewitt has more. gavin: they need funding or face exit from the euro. it is a country slowly unraveling. greece imports large amounts of meat, but it's suppliers are demanding cash. >> if the banks close, no foreign supply will sell us meat. we will be out in 10 days. gavin:there is no panic buying here, but customers are stocking up. >> we have experienced dramatic differences in demand in certain products like pasta rice, baby food. >> the greek government reassured people there was adequate food supplies. in the cafes, they watched the prime minister, alexis tsipras take his case to the european parliament. there was some booing as he called for a fair deal. >> we are fighting for an agreement. we want an agreement t

katty: this is "bbc world news america," and i'm katty kay. south carolina's governor signs off on removing the confederate flag from the statehouse left in a month after the shooting interest in. -- shooting in charleston. more than 21 million people had their information stolen in a cyber attack. in brazil, they are trying to stop deforestation before it's too late. reporter: acres and acres of trees are felled in a couple of days or weeks. katty: welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. tomorrow morning the confederate battle flag, which has flown on the flags of south carolina -- flown among the flags of south carolina for decades, will be taken down. the governor signed the order late today. this happened less than a month after nine african-americans were shot dead at a church in charleston. nick bryant brings us the latest. nick: -- >> thank you, south carolina. it's coming down. it's a beautiful day to be in south carolina. nick: a vote to bring down the confederate battle flag, a move unth

katty: thank you very much for joining me.horities in texas have denied editing a video of an account that started as a routine traffic stop, but resulted in the arrest of a woman who later died in cap eddie -- died in custody. gary o'donoghue has more. gary: a highway outside of houston texas is where sandra bland was stopped for failing to signal while changing lanes. it started calmly. the police officer goes back to his car. a few minutes later he returns and tensions rise. then, the real spat over a cigarette. cigarette? >> i am in my car. why do i need to put out my cigarette. >> step out of the car. step out of the car. >> you do not have the right to do that. >> i do have the right. gary:things get worse. get out. now. >> you are doing all of this for a failure to signal? gary:as the to move out of the camera's view, the argument escalates and sandra bland is handcuffed while swearing and insulting the officer. sandra bland was taken to the county jail. three days later after 9:00 a.m. on july 13 she was found hanging

katty: reporting from london, i'm katty kay. raising the flag on a new day of relations in the u.s. and cuba, after 50 years the two countries take historic steps. an explosion in turkey kills dozens of young activists working to rebuild part of syria. authorities say islamic state was probably to blame. and move over, nashville, we are going to nairobi for some country music and an artist known simply as sir elvis. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a new beginning -- that's how the u.s. secretary of state has described reestablishing thought diplomatic relations with cuba. cuba is flag was hosted -- was wasted at the country's embassy in washington, a site that hasn't been seen in more than half a century. then secretary kerry will travel to havana for a similar event. but not everyone is pleased about the move. reporter: cuban ceremonials laying out in the heart of washington. in an event unimaginable until recently cuba's flag was raised outside and embassy established for the first time in more than 54 years. singing along to the nation

katty: this is "bbc world news america." reporting from washington, i am katty kay. great citizens struggle with sharp banks and little cash. president obama addresses the fight against so-called islamic state and says there are no current plans to send more american troops to the battle. and working to build a path out of poverty. we look at efforts in uganda to provide a better life for the next generation. katty: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. it has been a day of suspense around europe after the resounding no vote on greece's referendum on austerity. it has increased pressure on greek banks, placing new conditions on financial support. i day ahead of an emergency summit with eurozone leaders the greek finance minister has stepped down. from athens, our economics editor has been following it all. reporter: the day after greece's historic vote against the bailout offered by the rest of the eurozone, greeks q up to get the 60 euros they are allowed before the cash runs out. >> i'm worried about the future. >> i believe w

katty: thanks very much for joining me. >> thanks for having me. katty: u.s. officials say turkey has agreed to allow american military planes to use a turkish airbase in its campaign against islamic state militants in iraq and syria. the move comes amid an escalation of fighting on the border. earlier on thursday, turkish forces exchanged fire with highest positions in syria after a soldier was shot dead and two others wounded by incoming fire. the owners of "the financial times" have sold the newspaper for $1.3 billion. the paper has been owned by british company pearson for almost 60 years. pearson said the sale would allow it to concentrate on its education publishing business. now to a discovery that has scientists very excited. on the left, you will recognize planet earth, but you are probably less familiar with the planet on the right. it was discovered using a high-powered space telescope and it's more similar to our planet than any previously discovered, raising, of course speculation about if it could sustain life. >> in a distant solar system, an am

i agree with katty. they were bound to come down anyway.eople love you before you say you're running for president. then you say you're running for president and sud lyn theydenly they don't love you anymore. that's been secretary clinton's problem from the very beginning, since she was introduced to the american people. they have given her a bit of a side eye trying to figure out who are you? what are you about? i'm not sure i trust you. i think she can -- i think she can gain the trust back. i think she will once the campaign really gets going and she has one or two or 17 republicans to respond to during the campaign. >> one thing to note every job she ever had in public office she's done excellent job. but senator and secretary of state -- >> well the secretary of state record will be debated throughout the campaign. >> and it should be. >> yeah. you know what willie, what can't be debated. >> what's that? >> the xis exquisite fairways that run into the pacific oceans. the buffets that line the football field and go into trump internatio

katty, as you know the european union has been preparing for this exit.o negotiate, to make some kind of deal this week. >>> all right, thank you so much, ambassador nick burns. we greatly appreciate it. >> i was responsible for the lightning. did you like that? sort of the glow there. >> good. >> katty, we talked about this earlier, the europeans don't really have too many good choices here. you can go ahead and tell the greeks to leave because they're not pushing the reforms they should be pushing. but the alternatives don't seem -- >> it's really interesting what sara was saying and what we have seen in the markets so far, there hasn't been panic. >> is that a surprise? i feel like i have been reading about greece's economy for a decade. >> a week ago when the kind of crisis started rumbling the u.s. stock market had its worst day in two years. it's not impossible that u.s. stocks could be massively affected if they thought this was going to be a real crisis in europe that would affect the eurozone and therefore would affect american exports to europe

what say you katty kay? >> i'm flying united tonight to london.lve the problems. >> good luck you to. >> send your bags ahead. >> don't take any bags. perhaps just don't fly. i agree with brian. the number of times all of us have been stuck at airports and promised that we would never go through this again and that we would switch allegiance and then we're stuck because there is nowhere else question go to. we have to go on the airlines much we all travel so much. the railroad system in america really just doesn't work very well. it's useless. and we just don't have that option. this is going to keep happening. and the more i think what happened yesterday was interesting because we had "wall street journal" we had a stock exchange. we had united airlines and no relationship between any of those whether we're going to call uber glitches and we are guaranteed we're told this is nothing to do with cyber terrorism or hacking. but what it did show is our incredible reliance on computer systems and when those systems go down look how quickly millions of

seriously, katty, later on this hour we'll let you talk about your favorite greek island.t have been very exhilarating for the greeks. they woke up the next morning, though, with a pretty nasty hangover, and they're having to go right back to the table and deal with the same germans and the same realities that i'm sorry, in large part their undoing. >> here's the joke that julian told me yesterday. angela merkel decides i'm going to greece. i'm going to settle this once and for all. she goes to the airport and she's in the immigration line. the immigration officer says name, angela merkel. age, 56. occupation, not yet. >> there you go. more jokes. never really get old, do they? >> they never do. no. >> you won the pulitzer prize and that's your contribution to a greek crisis. >> i told julian i'd try to get it in. this is my shot. the greeks do have a situation to deal with. but they now have -- they're now all in on defiance right? they're all in on we're not going to do what we bossed around, we're not going to do what they try to make us do so where do we go from here?

the sad truth is if you look at many of their policies it could be hard to tell the difference. >> katty clinton ever thought there would be a day where she would have to with a straight face criticize donald trump in a presidential campaign. but to be more serious, she broadens it out to a republican attack as well. >> yeah you know every now and again in american politics you can think back to the last cycle, somebody comes along who gets an awful lot of media attention for a long time but who most of us in our heart of hearts think is never going to really be a serious presidential candidate candidate. donald trump as leader of the free world the world's biggest economy, the world's biggest military, the things he said disqualify him from holding that position with any seriousness. i think hillary clinton is right on that. the depressing thing is it took the criticism of john mccain as a war hero in a sense to give the other republican candidates a free pass to round on him. they didn't do it when he was saying equally despicable things about mexican immigrants and they felt they coul