paul beben is live at the united nations. paul, the united states congress still has to vote on the deal, but the u.n.'s approval could be a game changer. >> absolutely, randall. while the u.n. approval makes this international law it goes into effect officially in 90 days sometime in mid-october. the united nations giving their approval today. you heard a lot of people at capitol hill both republicans and democrats, but especially republicans are not happy with this. and they say the deal leapfrogs congress, and that's not the way they want it to play out. but this caps years of negotiations as recently as a week ago there were sticking points but now the work begins. in december there is a major landmark that will be the first report from the international atomic agency. they'll let the world know if iran is complying with the deal. but in the meantime, the obama administration is praising the deal. the president is speaking earlier this morning. let's take a listen. >> this is by far our strongest approach to insure that ir

paul beben is live at the united nations. good morning. this vote at the u.n. is considered a major milestone for this bill? >> absolutely. historic milestone. it represents the culmination of years of work behind the scenes between world powers and iran and the usa that process has been much more intensive and followed closely in the public eye. as recently one week ago there were still sticking points, but as you mentioned this historic deal has 90 days to go into effect. that will happen sometime mid-october. now what happens--the first thing that happens is that u.n. monitors will be in iran, and some sanctions will be lifted only if iran holds up it's part of the deal. this will go into effect in october and in december the aaea will give its report. the u.n. vote makes it international law, which has made a lot of people on capitol hill unhappy. but some democrats say they have not had sufficient time to review the deal, and there may be some realisticking points going forward. the obama m just gave the deal to congress yesterday. so they're just now gett

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. >> paul beben, thank you very much. >>> well like greece puerto rico is dealing with debt. the only difference is that puerto rico is an u.s. territory. on tonight's inside story we take a look at what happens next. >> if the neglect round of bills do come up, and checks simply are not cut what happens then? >> it is very complex and the central government debt is constitutionally guaranteed, and the government will pay that. in the case of other debt, the non-central government, non-guaranteed dead of debt it's likely they will default on it. >> you can watch more of ray's discussion tonight on "inside story" that begins at 11:30 eastern time. >>> another deadline has come and gone in the iranian nuclear talks. the six world powers are holding negotiations until friday. the u.s. insisting that an agreement is close. >> as secretary kerry himself said on sunday we have never been closer to reaching a final agreement than we are now. but they continue to be some significant differences that remain. and this is a view this is "the view" not only of the united states but our p