now once again oman is ready for the world stage. i have remembrances from 1940, and i can tell you, it's another country almost one might say in terms of what development has taken place. but in terms, as i say, of the other aspect of it, which is the change and evolution in the social, political aspects of life mostly, it's been rather slow. oman has remained under the world's radar the past few decades.while in the neighboring united arab emirates. dubai has become a mecca for tourists. now, oman is carefully laying out its welcome mat. this country of untouched beauty is seeking to strike a balance basic to all humanity. there are two things every human being is engaged in all the time. one is to preserve oneself. the other is to enhance your fortunes. a joint concert between universities a world apart. sultan qaboos university in muscat and the college of william and mary in virginia. ♪ some of the americans indistinguishable from omanis ♪ it's the kind of harmonic relationship the country is encouraging. in oman we have this ki

went immediately to oman.ved we didn't know how deeply. >> we saw the hikers released an you could see the omanys bring them out. what didn't get no cuss is the same officials who got them out were also bring bringing back iranians through back to iran. the white house will still say there wasn't a prisoner swap but you could still say there were quid pro quos building. i guess one question we have going forward is there are still americans in iran. will they sort of be released in some way if there's a deal and will more iranians get out of american prisoners as part of this process. >> and jay, in fact we should report that as we were coming out of that briefing our colleague from the "washington post" actually approached the iranian official and said what about my colleague, jason rezian, i interviewed ali here and we've been talking about this all week. he said that is a separate judicial process. so that's the same answer that president rouhani gave to the "washington post" when we were in a breakfast wit

man, oman, getting to the ball and making the catch, nice play. >> matt: rodriguez off the ends of thea shot up first for out number two. chris stewart's certainly gotten a lot more than he bargained for tonight. around the time the first pitch was thrown at 7:05, chris was thinking about i got the night off. francisco cervelli is ejected in a second and stewart's been out there ever since, going deeper into the night than he ever imagined this evening. >> john: got a tight slider when he gets it to make it turn the corner. >> matt: sam tuivailala has only been pitching since 2012 by the way. he was drafted as an infielder in 2010 out of high school in northern california. turned down a scholarship to play at fresno state, and then thought his best route to the big leagues would be if he changed his fortune and became a pitcher in 2012 and here he is in the show. >> john: i thought he looked a little different running to first. wasn't really a pitcher's run over there looked athletic. not that pitchers aren't athletic just looked like -- i guess you cleared it up. >> matt: i get you. o

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. >> the patient was a man from oman in his 70s.e entered thailand with his family to get treatment for heart disease. he was confirmed as the first known case of mers at a bangkok hospital. the thai health ministry has confirmed none of the 176 people who were in contact with the man have been infected. over in indonesia, the health ministry conducted a health meeting to prevent the spread of the mers virus. officials used a device to measure body temperature, and they played the role of travelers traveling into and out of the country on a pilgrimage to mecca. >> translator: we expected indonesian people to be aware of mers. there are a few people who were not, but some young people have already figured it out. we provided kits giving information about what mers is is, and we also asked the minister of transportation to air television announcements on flights. >> no mers cases have been confirmed in indonesia so far. >>> police in thailand are making sure visitors can take a ride without getting ripped off. they are cracking down o

the government announced wednesday, that oman died that's been denied by the taliban, there has been rumours of death in the past but none were confirmed. >> the verdict in the retrial is due to be handed down in a cairo court on thursday. they are accused of colluding with the out's muslim brotherhood, charges they and al jazeera denied. peter greste was deported from egypt in february and is being tried in absentia. charles stratford reports. >> reporter: threes al jazeera journalists hope the verdict will be the end of a long ordeal. so do their colleagues and other journalists. it began in september 2014, when the reporter produces and mohammed badr and mohamed fadel fahmy were charged with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. in is punk dated by brief and confusing appearances in court in which they protested the innocence. the trial was a farce. it provoked an outpouring of solidarity amongst journalists. it's protested in support. that didn't stop the court from convicting them and six other colleagues in absentia. sentencing them. a verdict that provoked international outrage. th

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be a relief for other gulf states iran say large trading partner for the united arab emirates and oman, oath both other the the -- on the other side of the gulf. the israeli prime minister spoke a while ago and imtiaz tyab joins us with more on what he had to say imtiaz. >> reporter: yes, it's very interesting that here you have the israeli prime minister making a televised statement about this deal before this deal is even formally announced by those who are sitting at the negotiating table including iran. whatever the case, mr. netanyahu had some very stinging criticisms of this deal. he described it as a creating a short pact for iran to create a nuclear weapon. remember he also said that as part of this deal, iran will receive $100 billion to, and i quotes spread terrorism. and he ended by saying that this was a mistake of what he described as historical proportions. >> imtiaz, i suppose this depends on who you talk to in israel being but to what extent is the israeli prime minister's rhetoric echoed by the israeli public at large? what are they likely to say on this? >> reporter:

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absolute dictator but now the second longest serving autocrat in the middle east after the sultan of omans a reason why that's so. he's ideological but he's also pragmatic. at the end of the day, what's paramount for him is his own survival and the survival of the system. they reached a point where this deal is an economic necessity. >> direct they say if the deal does take place, iran gets access to lots of money, tens of billions of dollars. it could become more active in its foreign policy some of which is very anti-american. do you worry that the deal will unleash a more activist of anti-american be iran or could it be the beginning of a genuine reproachment with the united states? >> i think 2500 years of persian civilization makes me hopeful that this current kind of isolated iran which is a pariah state is anomaly of history angieand geography geography. on the other hand, 26 years of the republic makes me sober. there is valid hope in time it could have transformed iran but there is also valid concern it could empower hard line forces in the short term. >> fantastic discussion. th

and then, after the iranian elections, we explored, starting with a trip that i made to oman. we explored whether or not there would be a serious effort on the iranians to negotiate. an end to their nuclear weapons program. the agreement. the interim agreement is called the lausanne agreement. you have probably seen that. it was generally accepted as a positive step on the path toward to getting the iranians to back off from nuclear weapons research. then, the final agreement, which is over 100 pages and has a lot of annexes. if you are interested, it is on the internet now. it basically does put a lid for a time period on the iranian program. there are people on the other side of this home had respect to have said very clearly, they cannot support it and think it is a mistake. they believe the iranians will cheat on the agreement and even if they do not, in 10, 15, 20, 25 years they will have a free hand. i think that is it respectable argument. however, i think it is important to ask what are our alternatives? when i say that, i mean not just what are our alternatives today,

our case was indirectly tied and that came out years later through the government of oman.arefully calibrated with the temperature of u.s./iran reason relations. they just don't know if this means they're going to get out tomorrow or if there's something else that's going to block that. but this deal is a really good deal and it's going to ease tension on both sides. the most important part of it is that personally for me is that it increases the incentive of the iranian government to use the tactic of holding americans hostage in the future. >> what if lawmakers refuse to endorse the deal? >> that would be devastating for the americans being held there. and these men have done nothing wrong. maybe that doesn't need to be stated. but just to reinforce it jason was over there trying to be a bridge between cultures. he was doing really constructive journalism. the iranian government -- it's shameful for them to continue to hold them. i hope our government is doing everything it can. but i would also call upon our government to do more. both sides hold a degree of responsibili

they're supposed to go to oman a border country to yemen. they'll be in yemen soon after their release. that's the reality of it. that's the pattern in the past. that's why the policy at gitmo makes no sense whatsoever in releasing hard-core radicals. we've been to the hard core for some time now. >> five were released for sergeant bowe bergdahl a controversial decision. great to see you in d.c. thanks. >> good seeing you, gretchen. >>> have you ever been fined for skipping a toll? do you have an ez pass? there is a class action lawsuit involving unpaid toll fines. we'll tell you if you can be part of it. >>> new questions over hillary clinton's relationship with the media and trying to control her image. what some of the emails say that have now been disclosed. >>> team usa winning big last night, heading to the finals now. we'll show you the dramatic game-winning goal. go usa! >> i remember grabbing the ball. it was close to the end line. i picked it up. there was a lot going on. across america people, like basketball hall of famer dominiq

i do know that our case was tied to the nuclear deal through the government of oman that started to negotiate release just months after we were captured and that when high-level u.s. and iranian officials met on soil, that meeting was paved by the negotiations around our release. iran uses american hostages as bargaining chips, as sort of money in the bank to cash in when they need to assert pressure on larger issues. both sides do this. the thing with this nuclear deal that's important to remember is that now that relations have begun to normalize this will not only benefit iranians that have been suffocated under sanctions but it will also decrease the incentive for the iranian government to continue to use the tactic of holding hostages in the future. >> what would you say to the families of jason and "the washington post" report and the others who are still in prison in iran and who have been advocating for more high-level engagement? >> i think they should continue to advocate for that engagement. it is that's the only way we got our government to respond to us is by demanding that they

churches as they saw the de porres club was about challenging and changing the institutional racism and omanrstood that was what they were about. in fact, father markoe once gave a speech to a group of sodomy the de porres club at other motivation and he set up and quickly said the goal of the almost de porres club is to kick jim crow's out of all and then he sat back down. they were not there for anything else. when people understood that they tended to get on board or at least not resist the efforts of the de porres club. the first workout was a block down the street. as i take your but it was a laundry that was a white own business to refuse to hire blacks to do anything other than wash the laundry even though center is located in the black community almost all its customers were black, they would neither anyone in the come in the blacks in the office when he blocked a voice to drive the delivery vans. so the de porres club this would'vewould have been about 1950 after couple years of doing as my dad said this week, pleasant things, went to this this and said we think this is in favor of

elections when i may have finally got all your support starting with the trip that i madei made to oman we will be explored whether or not they're would be a serious effort to negotiate an end to the nuclear weapons program. the agreement, theagreement, the interim agreement that was reached is called the lausanne agreement. generally accepted as a positive step and then the final agreement which is over 100 pages wasa hundred pages, was lots of annexes. think it's on the internet and basically does put a lid for a time on the uranium program. there arethey're are people on the other side of this for my respect who have said very clearly they cannot support it. i think it is a mistake. they believe the iranians will cheat on the agreement and even if they don't shoot with certain of the provisions sunset they we will have a free hand. i think that is a respectable argument. however, i think it is important to ask what alternatives are. when i say that i mean not just what are alternatives today, tomorrow,our alternatives today tomorrow, and 20 years now. what are our alternatives right

the contacts mediated in oman for years by close colleagues of the sultan have seen a series of u.s.-iran prisoner releases, not exchanges but releases, and there may be more to come. it's incredible. we're told they have seen the deal. oh, yeah, there were parts like the iaea has to work out a side deal we don't see here in congress. but it's a good deal. and lest i forget my friend that spoke last from the other side of the aisle was talking about how great the dodd-frank bill is, let me say quickly about that the doth-frank bill that was passed supposedly to punish these evil investment banks in -- on wall street, what has it really done? it has punished the community banks that didn't do anything wrong. they weren't invested in mortgage backed securities. they weren't doing all kinds of machinations to try to create new forms of legalized gambling on wall street. they weren't engaged in that. yet dodd-frank has so punished community banks that every month, there are fewer commun they're getting gobbled up by the guys that caused the problems. that's what dodd-frank did. it added

around the persian gulf and gulf of oman.ovider an you can see where that's toep led from number five because of the sanctions it is dropped all the way to this number right here 13th place in exports. that's according to the cia. and here where the exports stands now. saudi arabia at number two. russia, the united arab emirates at three, kuwait and iraq and iran reserves up to 35 million barrels and iran without a doubt keen on collecting revenue because sanctions crippled the economy. lifting sanctions a big deal for iran and the oil and might be a big deal for us for gas prices concerned down the road. >> just in time for the continuous summer driving season. thanks so much. we appreciate it. >>> so we'll take a look at the markets and what is taking place right now as we see from the new york stock exchange up by 81%. 81 points excuse me. i'm going to have to put on my glasses now. sorry about that. i'll do so and read about the republican fire brand we know is donald trump. he spent the day in virginia landed by helicopt