netenyahu is facing at home.is being harshly criticized by opposition politicians here in israel who are accusing mr. netenyahu of handling this badly. he is saying the track he took with the u.s. has effectively worked against israel. straining ties with the u.s. president barack obama meant that mr. obama didn't listen to israeli's what they see as legitimate concerns and instead agreed to more concessions with iran, which had lead to the deal that we now see. >> all right. thank you. and we will continue to follow the story on the nuclear deal with iran. >>> let's move on to the rest of the day's news. iraqi forces have suffered heavy losses after launching its new offensive against al jazeera america. at least 80 soldiers have been killed. four civilians were also killed. isil fighters targeted military positions and residential areas. [ explosion ] >> reporter: shia fighters government forces and sunni tribesmen are involved. the army says it has made some gains and is moving towards ramadi which fell to isi

netenyahu by opposition politicians is that mr.enyahu took the wrong track, that he was antagonizing in their view mr. obama, and that lead mr. obama to pursue this deal even further, and in their deal agree to certain, i guess agreements with iran that he may not have otherwise. so there's a lot of anger being directed at mr. netenyahu for not preventing this deal from going ahead. >> imtiaz from jerusalem. ali velshi is here. you just spent several weeks in tehran. it's interesting that president obama is being criticized over the deal here in the united states. we hear that netenyahu is getting some stack from some of his people there. what about the leader in iron? will he will hailed as a hero or someone that didn't stand strong against the u.s. >> generally speaking they have been in favor of this deal. it's ramadan right now, so nothing happens during the day, but there is anticipation there will be celebration in the streets. there has been some discussion about allowing some dancing in the streets. generally speaking there

, they are going to try to use their allies in washington and prime minister netenyahu has just openedwitter account in persia. so maybe that will influence the persian public opinion. >> thank you very much. still to come on al jazeera, can greece's prime minister make the latest bailout deal stick. and celebrations at nasa headquarters as a ten-year mission to pluto comes good. ♪ >> he stood in that bathroom and nobody went to help him. >> how many people have to get raped before somebody says "whoa, we got a problem"? >> "faultlines". >> what do we want? >> al jazeera america's hard-hitting... >> today the will be arrested. >> ground-breaking... >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> emmy award-winning, investigative series. >> we have to get out of here. ♪ >>> the top stories here on al jazeera. iran and six major world powers have agreed to an historic nuclear deal that will see iran limit its nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling sanctions. president obama says the agreement is based on verification and not trust. he warned congress that he will veto any

benjamin netenyahu has two options here. he pushed very hard against this.e could decide listen i'm going to try to repair my relationship with president obama, try to bridge that gap again, because this is a frayed relationship, maybe as frayed as any prime and president in the last 25 years. or he could say i'm going to still try to lobby congress. and i'm just going to keep pushing. and that's what most analysts expect him to do. the president can wait for an overture from netenyahu which is what it seems the white house is willing to do. morgan. >> michael thanks so much. stay tuned to al jazeera america here because we will bring you president obama's news conference coming up in just the next hour. >>> as michael mentioned president obama has to persuade a major ally israel. that deal is in the long-term security interests. prime minister netenyahu so far isn't convinced, saying it puts iran on a sure path to nuclear weapons. we asked a former israeli prime minister what we thought of the deal. >> i think it's really a bad agreement, so in a way it's a

the israeli prime minister benjamin netenyahu says the zeal an historic mistake. >> the world is a muchore dangerous place today than it was yesterday. >> also fighters loyal to yemen's president in exile recapture the airport in the city of aden. >>> and in sport the world's most lucrative cricket league faces an uncertain future after a corruption investigation. ♪ >>> finally after years of negotiations world powers have reached an agreement with iran on limiting its nuclear activity. in return crippling international economic sanctions will be lifted. let's take a look at what is included in the deal. the accord continues what is being described as a snapback plan that means sanctions will be restored within 65 days if iran does not comply with its terms. u.n. missile sanctions will stay in place for eight more years, tehran will also have the right to challenge a request to visit nuclear facilities. bans will be lifted on all fields including investment in oil, gas, and aviation. and will retine the right to enrich some uranium but not enough to make a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: a

netenyahu has urged the u.s.s to reject the agreement. >>> and while mexican authorities continue their hunt for the word's most wanted drug lord some have been seen singing his praises. al jazeera ease john hullman travelled to his home state where he remains popular. ♪ >> reporter: north mexico is famous for its out laws and the bands that sing their praises. this band's latest can only be about joaquin guzman after he spectacularly tunnelled out of jail last saturday. ♪ >> reporter: the world's most wanted drug lord will be welcomed back to his hometown be many here who see him as a vital pillar of the local economy. >> translator: he provides jobs and helps a lot of families and if he's not here they go hungry, and the economy suffers. >> reporter: we traveled further into the hills to talk to farmers who survive by growing marijuana for the cartels. they met us with guns tucked into their belts, and told us while el chapo has been locked up, the killings have intensified. >> translator: the time that he was

netenyahu has been one of the harshest critics of the deal.arter is also stoet meet with leaders in jordan and saudi arabia. >>> i spoke with former deputy assistant secretary of state for iran and he was held hostage when revolutionaries overran the u.s. embassy. >> what after all is diplomacy? what was our diplomacy with the soviet union? it is negotiating imperfect agreements, no negotiated agreement gives you all you want, with people that you neither trust, nor you like. it's flawed agreements with -- sometimes with dubious people. so yes, you can criticize the agreement, fair enough but it seems to me a lot of the criticism is based on not wanting a negotiated agreement, but wanting a surrender from the other side. >> i want to go back to those days some 34 years ago when you were held hostage for 444 days. there is this incredible video of you meeting with the then president. he of course is now the supreme leader. this is video we're showing of this extraordinary meeting. given your experience with iran what do americans maybe misunder

. >> reporter: we'll also be meeting with benjamin netenyahu. mr.yahu of course has been the most fierce vocal and public critic of any kind of deal with iran describing it as a mistake of historic proportions. however, in saying that he's not alone in the criticism of this deal reached between iran and global powers. mr. carter is also visiting countries like jordan and saudi arabia with the same message; that this is a good deal and it is a deal that will lend to the security of the region but as we have been saying nations like israel and indeed other countries here in the middle east, very suspicious about this agreement, this agreement that has now been passed unanimously by the u.n. security council. >>> now to greece which met two debt payments today to the international monetary fund. it used an emergency loan from creditors to meet the deadline. also today, banks reopened for the first time in three weeks. strict limits on crash withdrawals remain in place, and citizens have a new concern, higher taxes on basic necessities. in turkey offici

obviously we have heard from prime minister netenyahu has had to say. >> sure -- sure senator. beginning with israel prime minister netenyahu was very clear as he has been clear publicly in its opposition to the deal. we discussed that but then we discussed many other things as well. hezbollah's activity up on the border with lebanon. in fact i visited there our missile defense activities cyber security coordination and intelligence coordination and we discussed many topics but he was very clear -- >> and excuse me for interrupting, but would you agree with senator wicker's characterization about the israel's opposition to this? >> i only spoke to the prime minister. >> and what did you hear from some of our arab allies in the middle east? >> i spoke to the king of saudi arabia who repeated to me a statement he had issued a few days before supporting the agreement. he referenced that -- again, i don't think this is violating any confidence that the verification and as he put it snapback provisions were particular important to him. so he referenced those things. and we went on t

. >>> philip hammond met with one of the deal's most harrish critics, which was benjamin netenyahu.e insists those sanctions will only be lifted if iran complies with his side. >>> dylann roof is in court today. the judge will decide if documents should be made public or if they should impact roof's right to a fair trial. >>> jurors are resuming their deliberations in the movie theater shooter, james holmes. the jury is considering whether holmes was legally insane when we shot in a theater. jurors deliberated for more than 12 hours yesterday. >>> one of the largest cyber crime marketplaces on the internet shut down this morning. the website called dark code is believed to have played a significant role in the theft of information from millions of computer users all across the world. john henry smith has the details. >> we have obtained court authorization to shut down the dark code forum. >> reporter: dark code first appeared in 2008, an invitation only website where criminals could trade malware, passwords, stolen credit card information and ideas and techniques to make members be

netenyahu is promising justice. he said: the u.s.as condemned the incident as well which it also labeled a terrorist attack. the state department called for justice and for both sides to avoid escalating tensions. stephanie decker has the latest from the west bank. >> reporter: the family shared the only bedroom. they would have been fast asleep when the window was smashed and this small space set on fire. ibrahim heard screams he said he saw the two attackers standing over the parents. he went to get help. and when he came back the two men were gone. >> translator: i saw the four-year-old child. i pulled him out. they told me there was another child inside. then there was a huge blast and there was no way to save the baby. >> reporter: this is where the 18-month-old was found dead and the worker who removed his body from here and the way he described what was left of the baby was as a lump of coal. the neighbors house was also set on fire but no one was home at the time. the attackers left behind a ves age, it says revenge in hebrew

netenyahu said there would be justice, saying this is an act of terrorism in every respect: >>> the europeannion has also condemned the killing, and says it underlines the need for an enduring peace agreement between the palestinians and israelis. >> reporter: many people, not just from duma from this village but also from surrounding areas came to bury the 18-month-old baby. as you said, there is a lot of shock here, i think, more than anger. of course people are angry, but they will tell you that these kind of attacks happen all the time from settlers. so it's more shock really what people will tell you here. we're in the bedroom where the horrific attack took place. isle just get joe to give you a sense of what the scene is here, and we know that in the early hours of the morning as we heard, they -- they smashed the windows, through in a fire bomb and the family was all sleeping. it's a small room. they would have shared this. and we know from witnesses that one man we spoke to heard the father screaming, came just outside the house, and he said he saw two men standing above the bodies o

netenyahu promised there would be justice.e said this is an act of terrorism in every respect: the u.s. has condemned the attack as well. also labeling it as a terrorist incident. the state department called for both sides to avoid escalating tensions. stephanie decker has the latest from the west bank. >> reporter: there is a lot of shock here i think. more than anger. people will tell you that these kind of attacks happen all the time from settlers. this village is surrounded by three illegal outposts and various settlements. we're in the bedroom where the horrific attack took place. i'll just get joe to give you a sense of what the scene is here and we know that in the early hours of the morning as we hear from the israeli army spokesperson, they smashed the windows, threw in a fire bomb and the family was sleeping. we spoke to a witness who came just outside of this house, and he said he saw two men standing above the bodies of the parents who managed to get out. they were lying on the floor, the mother and phatter. he sai

prime minister benjamin netenyahu has been very outspoken in his criticism of this deal. they'll also be listening to constituents back home. the house is expected to gavel out at the end of this week they'll be back in their district for a full month and a lot of members will be listening to how the constituents feel about this. the house is very crucial to president obama's aims here, because it is expected that the house and senate will vote to disapprove of president obama's deal. now that is not a guarantee, but it is likely. president obama will likely veto that and the question is will congress have the two-thirds majority needed to overcome a presidential veto? that would be huge. to prevent that the president needs a third of the house or a third of the senate to push back. the white house has been pressing as well. president obama has been playing golf with house members. they have been taking private meetings. because it's house democrats that he really sees some opportunity to get the support he needs to be able to pushback against congress. >> it may also whe

benjamin netenyahu made the appeal after meeting with u.s. defense secretary ashton carter.is in the middle east to reassure regional allies about the nuclear agreement. our -- [ inaudible ]. >>> a new poll suggests three-quarters of the united states approves of the restoration of diplomatic tries between u.s. and cuba. the u.s. secretary of state said he will visit havana in august. he even gave part of his speech in spanish. >> translator: the united states welcomes this new begins of this relationship. we are determined to live as good neighbors on the basis of mutual respect, and we all citizens to look forward to the future. >> cuba's foreign minister says it will only work if all sanctions are removed. >> translator: only the lifting of the economic commercial and financial blockade which has caused so much harm and suffering to our people the return of the occupied territory in guantanamo and suspect for cuba's sovereignty will lend meaning to this historic event today. >> as he said cuba wants guantanamo bay back. . it has been a u.s. military base for more than 100

prime minister netenyahu so far is not convinced.lier, i asked a former israeli prime minister what he thought of the deal. >> i think it is really a bad agreement, so in a way mistake to have it. it's bad because it gives the -- it makes iran a threshold nuclear player. it allows iran to choose when to turn to external nuclear power, not without certain risks along the way. specialsly they will decide to do it in the coming years. it relieves the tight noose around their economic situation. i think that there were alternatives. there was an opening for a much tougher kind of negotiation with the however soft speak willing be accompanied by a big stick in the background that will convince the iranians somehow that they have to basically dismantle the installation and stop the nuclear program. basically we're in a totally new page of the history of the middle east starting from yesterday. basically the world lead by america, including russia china, europe and so on all agreed to recognize iran as a major, legitimate regional power. an

secretary jest met with one of the harshest and most vocal critics, israeli prime minister benjamin netenyahu. >>> mr. iranians say they have high hopes for their country once sanctions are lifted. ali velshi met with business owners and entrepreneurs with dollar signs in their eyes. and for them choosing money over nuclear ambitions was a no-brainer. >> translator: we need to have relations with the world. we need to export what we make, and import some things that are not worth creating in house. >> reporter: this is an executive in a car parts factory west of tehran. he is hesitant to talk politics but eager to tell us that given a choice between iran's nuclear am bigses and the country's economic prosperity, he would choose integrating iran back into the world economy. >> translator: in this you yeek moment in time, iran needs to move away from its oil exporting base. >> reporter: this is part of iran's auto industry, one of the largest in asia. it is second onlying to iron's oil and gas industry. he said the sanctions forced him to make parts instead of importing them. now that sanctions

while prime minister netenyahu is unlikely to ever endorse this deal it is incumbent on the united states to deepen our cooperation with israel and better understand the concerns of the israelis. it's also critical that our partners and allies know the united states will not abandon the region in the wake of this agreement. the may 2015 joint statement following the u.s. and gulf cooperation council meetings at camp david provided a road map. it also makes clear the department of defense will be at the forefront of these efforts. critics of the agreement point to flaws related to iran's ballistic missile capability. the camp david joint statement outlines our commitment to the gcc and improving inner operability in defense. the joint statement indicates we will be increasing our training and exercise arrangements with gcc operations developments. these are important efforts that i look forward to today. these negotiations focus on denies iran a pathway to a nuclear weapon. as it as repeated demonstrated a force that supports terror and seeks to impose its will throughout the middle east.

benjamin netenyahu says on twitter that his government is working to return him from gaza and his brother called on the international community to find him. >> translator: my brother has been missing for the last ten months. it looks like he crossed the border into gaza and then disappeared. we're talking about a humanitarian case because my brother is not well. on our family's behalf i ask the government of israel to do its utmost to bring my brother back safely. and i ask the international community to put pressure on the government. >> pall brennan is where the family stillies. >> reporter: this is just a few miles from the frontier of gaza if you look over my shoulder that's gaza. it's barely four or five miles away, and with easy reaching distance. what appears to have happened is two weeks after the end of the gaza war in 2015. he took it upon himself to leave his apartment block and go those few miles in that direction, down towards the gaza border. now quite why he did that we don't know? his brother said that his brother was not well. they appealed for hamas or whoever might be i

israel's prime minister benjamin netenyahu says on twitter that his government is working to return himm gaza. his brother has called on the international community to help find him. >> translator: my bother has been missing for the last ten months. it looks like he crossed the boarder into gaza and then disappeared. we're taushging about a humanitarian case because my brother is not well. on our family's behalf i ask the government of israel to do its utmost to bring my brother back safely. and i ask the international community to intervene and put pressure to have my brother released. i also call on hamas to consider my brother's condition and release him immediately. >> what have you heard from his family? i understand they had a press conference earlier. tell us more about that. >> reporter: yeah, that -- that snip that we just played was from a news conference that took place just over my shoulder and the apartment block which the family home is in is just over the soldier. we're about five miles from the perimeter fence of gaza a stone's throw, really and very easy for him to go a

they safe tough opaccusation from prime minister benjamin netenyahu who has been calling the deal fundamentally>> barack obama has also been defending the deal. he says the agreement makes his country and the world more secure. >> but the bottom line is this. this nuclear deal meets the national security interests of the united states and our allies. it prevents the most serious threat iran obtaining a nuclear weapon which would only make the other problems that iran may cause even worse. that's why the alternative, no limits on iron's nuclear program, an iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon the risk of a region alarms race and greater risk of war, all of that would endanger our security. >> reporter: this could pave the way to reestablish diplomatic ties, but getting the two sides to agree on other issues would prove difficult. >> reporter: street celebrations in tehran. but does it mean the u.s. is going to work with the iranian leadership on issues such as isil and the syrian civil war. the iranian foreign minister seemed to indicate perhaps. >> it shows that in our globalized world, diplo

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