Frb environmentalists. From environmentalists. Jason rezaian. The me from his family the plea from his family to release him. A defining day for world dissident iweiwei as china finally gives back his passport. We begin with the circumstances surrounding the death much sandra bland and the questions that continue to grow. The racially charged case started with a contentious and controversial traffic stop. Three days later her body was found in her jail cell. The jailers said it was a suicide. Her family said she wouldnt take her own life. Much attention is focusing on that initial encounter with a state trooper on waller county, texas. Tristan atone has more. Get out of the car. I will light you up. Getget out now forced the Texas Department of Public Safety to rerelease the tape as authorities insisted that it was not edited or manipulate ed. Manipulated. The film had been criticized for having gaps and overlaps. Dps said it was a problem when they loaded the video file onto the internet. We will not say it is been tampered with. We dont know if it has not. We simply dont know. Im not a fren sis media examiner. But now i know that we are going to have to get one. Reporter questions involving the dash cax video cam video is just one question surrounding blands death. Sandy was pulled over for failure to indicate a proper lane change and in looking at that as her sister i simply feel like the officer was picking on her point blank period. Blands friends are also speaking out. For me im not so much concerned about that. But what was said what was done and how this all could have been avoided had all of this been held different. While the circumstances of sandras death remain guarded Authorities Say she hung herself in her cell using a garbage can liner. Her family deserves answers and the fbi and the Texas Rangers will continue their work to find out the truth. Meanwhile, blands representatives await the results from an independent autopsy. Her funeral will be held on saturday in chicago. In lyle, illinois, a suburb of chicago. Texas governor grek greg abbott weighed in today and said authorities are investigating. John. Did they piece together the events that led to san Sandra Blands death the dash cam video is being intensely scrutinized. Morgan radford is here with the story. Morgan. Now some are questioning the legality of the officers procedure so we went through video step by step. This dashboard video of an officer stopping san sandra bland gives clues into how bland was sent to jail and was dead days later. What was your first thought when you saw this video . I wanted to see more. I wanted to understand exactly what happened, how the officer interacted with her and then what happened thereafter when she got to prison. Thomas ruskin is a former new York City Police officer. We asked him to analyze the video with us. Lets go into the video edit bay. He seemed irritated. Is that something you would say first off when you stop them . Its possible, but its also normal for someone to say yes im irritated, im in a rush. What happened. Shouldnt have any effect on what the officer goes next. Would you mind putting out your cigarette please . Im in my car. Why do i have to put out my cigarette . You can step out of the car. I dont have to. He says step out. She says i dont have to step out. Is that true . If hes ordering her out of the car he is ordering her out. It is a lawful order. Should he order her out of the scar . I dont know why hes ordering her out. Tactically youre taught shes better off in the car. Tactically you have more control of someone or some people while theyre in the car than i do if people are roaming around or if im removing someone into moving traffic there. The traffic stop then quickly escalates. Get out the car i will light you up, get out. Ruskin then says the officer knows this is a complicated situation. Okay, all right. Lets do this. Yes were going to. It appears to me hes calling for assistance hes asking for backup. He now knows hesen going to hes going to have a confrontation with a driver who hes lawfully able to arrest. Did bland have the right to know what she was being arrested for . Ruskin says she did not. So again shes asking why am i being arrested and no ones telling her. He doesnt have to tell her. Hes told her shes under arrest. Put your hands behind you and turn around. Shes basically heightening the situation up. And for the officers behavior . Knock my head in the ground, i have epilepsy. When she said i have epilepsy, he said good. Was this professional conduct from a Police Officer . A cop sometimes can let his emotions or her emotions get carried away. Should he have said good you have epilepsy, no. Im sure in receipt strow expect he would take that back. Had she gotten out of the car and stopped the lip service she really would have done better. John, questions were raised whether that video was altered. Now a new version of the dash cam video is released that is english freeglitchfree. It is about three minutes shorter. Protocol parties must follow, for proper dissemination of evidence. If this woman had been white how would it have been different in your opinion . First of all she wouldnt have been dead. And i think every single incident right black people, people of color poor people are regularly stopped because they are disrupting or causing a mishap right . So i think what we saw in this video and what we will continue to see is that Police Officers regularly stop communities of color and other type of communities, very differently. Its referred to by driving while black. Right. What does that mean . I mean theres a phrase for everything. Walking while black carrying a wallet while black and a suspicion that black people are criminal. That we are deviant and that we are doing something not out of the ordinary and that we are perceived to be criminal. Driving while black is a ready that black people have to go through of driving in their car and the fear they might get stopped one day and get pressfor something that they may not be necessarily in the beginning of this the focus was on the suicide. Sch uhhuh. The possible suicide. But lets keep that question to the side for a second. Lets just look at the traffic stop. So what does that tell you thats going on in our society . Is this just an isolated incident . That could happen to white americans as well as black americans . Or does it Say Something more considering everything weve seen especially in the last year and a half . Absolutely not. I think that like, also in the consideration of the thoughts that this was suicidal, right there is a clear dehumanization thats happening of a black woman, a mischaracterization. You saw that in the video the Police Officer being violent and aggressive and there was a spaifs dehumanization. Whenever that is happening or you are interacting with a Police Officer there is a bit of dehumanization because there is a power over someone. Did she do anything wrong . No, i think she did everything she was talking back to the cop. Shes also an activist and knows her rights. Dont many in the movement that youve been part of have this talk to their children, dont talk back to cops, you could get in trouble you could lose your life. Yeah but did she violate that no because right now people all across this country black people are standing up for themselves and black people feel empowered to really take over their communities and do something about their lives and living it. In these coming days a thousand black people are going to be convening in Cleveland Ohio in recognition that this has been one year since airveg garner and eric garner and one year since mike brown. I think what you saw with sandra bland is no, enough is enough, i dont want to be in fear again. Dante, good to see you again. Thank you very much. Ferguson, missouri has a new top Police Officer. Andre anderson is the Second Interim police chief since march. Anderson takes control as the force struggles to stay control there. In rules handed down by the u. S. Justice department. Lowrnlings has thelori jane gliha has the story. Lori. Its only a six month interim position but he says eventually he would like to be considered for the full time police job. I believe that i am the right person for this particular job. So lets talk about my first plan of action. And that is simply to build trust, to develop community policing, in this area, theres a lot of work to be done, im ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work and i appreciate this opportunity. And john, he already has a lot of plans. He says he wants to do several points of training that are going to go on here. He wants to do deescalation training, he want to do bias Awareness Training and the way the police get out in the community and community policing. Whats changed since this Justice Department report regarding the Ferguson Police department . Well, there are a lot of things that have changed over the last year. For one theyve implemented body cams. Theyve worked on developing the citizen review board which is almost complete. They haven away with excessive tickets and fees that go with court fines. They have put in a new municipality judge theyve tried to have Municipal Court judge, and they have police more out in the community. If you talk to people here there is still a lot more that needs to be done. Lori jane gliha in ferguson, lori thank you. The man who is accused of killing nine people at an Historic South Carolina church are dylann roof, has been indicted on 33 counts. Mike viqueria has more from washington. Good evening john, attorney general Loretta Lynch unveiled a 33count indictment against dylann roof. Roof was plotting the attack for several months in advance. He be planned the location, mother emanuel for months before hand. To his mind, to roofs mind get revenge for perceived injustices by African Americans against whites use of tors to obstruct be religious beliefs and using a firearm for racially motivated murders. He is eligible for the Death Penalty, up to life or the Death Penalty and no decision whether or not she will seek that and ultimately it will be lynchs decision on whether he is found guilty or put to death on these federal charges. We believe that the evidence will support the allegation that roof chose mother emanuel because it was an old church, Historic Church and that it was historically significant as one of the oldest African American churches not just in South Carolina but in the nation. And john, lynched went on to call the allegation against roof the ultimate charges. Ill talk to a person who left the community about his experience. And donald trump support seemingseemsto be growing. Ir the white house has Given Royal Dutch Shell the final goahead to drill for oil in the alaska coast. Its a project thats drawn anger from environmental groups who see it as a threat to the areas pristine coast. Allen schauffler is in seattle. Allen. Good evening john. Shell now has permission to drill at two sites off the north coast of alaska. We understand preliminary early work at this point they cant actually drill deep into the soil where the oil is. There is a piece of equipment a capping stack that they have to have in place before they begin that deep drilling. The piece of equipment thats used in case theres an accident to cap the well, that piece of equipment is on board the ship and that ship is headed to Portland Oregon for repair to its hull. Activists are planning a reception, they hope, the kayaktivists socalled, that be be protested when it came into seattle earlier this summer. They did not stop the rig from moving into alaskan waters where it is now getting prepped for that drilling. A shell spokesman has repeatedly told us in the past that they have committed resources to safety and cleanup operations if necessary and have a big fleet in place off the alaskan coast in the arctic just in case theres an accident. Weve heard that over and over. Shell has also turned down our request repeatedly to go north with our cameras and document their efforts to keep things safe as they drill. We would certainly like to get up there to show everybody how much work theyre doing for that end. Still no time line, they have to get that ship fixed get that capping stack back up into the arctic ocean have it inspected and have the federal regulatory inspectors very sure its ready to go and then they can begin the deep drilling. John. Allen schauffler, thank you. This week, be peggy player took her own life by jumping from the at which time story rooftop bar. They say mayer was deeply troubled by her past, raised in an ultraorthodox ha Hasidic Community. She felt like an outcast even by her own family. A National Geographic documentary. From the age of 3 i already showed no interest in yiddish or hebrew or anything. Such a young child im not interested in that. A traditional orthodox funeral for feggie may are was held in brooklyn yesterday. According to reports about a third of the mourners were members of the Hasidic Community. Wrote a book about his experience called all who go do not return. Shulam dean is in our studio, nice to have you. Nice to be here. You knew feggie. I did. Youve known her story. I knew her for about five years. She was part of our extended community, folks who have left the Hasidic Community. For those of you who have been through this experience tell us what its like to hear news like this . Its absolutely devastating. People who leave the Hasidic Community, it takes a while to find your place but most importantly you lose your supports, connection to family and community the Hasidic Community shuns and ostracizes and shaims those who leave it. One, to punish those who leave and two, to discourage others from leaving. You paid a price for leaving . Oh yes. What is your punishment . I had no contact with my children. How many . I have five children. I didnt lose them in court i lost them it was the Community Coming together to fight me in court and also, the children being turned against me. They were indoctrinated that i was an evil wicked father not to be associated with. This sounds like cult dk librarylikebehavior. We hear about the moonieless and others. Is it fair to compare this sect with cults . The one i was from, they were a particular small village quasitheocracy led by the spiritual leader. Some places are more open. Places here in brooklyn are maybe not as insular and may not be fair to compare them. But you could make the case that they too are cultish. You lost contact with your family. You lost some friends i would assume. Oh, every one. So whats your life like now and how tough is this . Now its seven years later and i have a Wonderful Community of friends. Im part of an Organization Called footsteps which is a new york city based organization that provides emotional vocational support and we are a very, very Strong Community and this affects us very badly when theres a tragedy like this. Still emotional for you. Oh yeah. Every day . Yeah for sure. Can you express some of those feelings that you go through and how it comes up . Well, my oldest daughter who is now 20, i got married when i was 18 so we had children young five children. My eldest daughter who is 20 got married two years ago. I was very certain that would be the moment she reaches out to me. Or shell call me and reach out to me and invite me to the wedding but she didnt do that. That was a very, very painful thing. One of my other children has tried to reach out to me, sent me a car and i wasnt able to reach out to her and in return i got return to sender mail that i sent to them, so theres no way for me to penetrate sort of the walls around them. You talked about the high suicide rate for those who leave leave. Why do you think that is . Be those whothose who leave are its a really difficult journey. You find yourself for a long time in a lonely place. Ive struggled with depression myself. Ive been hospitalized for it. When things all came to a head in 2009 when i was fighting to maintain contact with my children and realized that there was no way that i could fight the community with their institutional resources that they use that they leveraged against me, i felt completely hopeless. And that is i think thats where it comes from. And i know weve had many incidents and there are many who have better than close. They have been saved because there are the supports that do exist to some degree although i wish there were more. Would you make a different decision if you had to do it over again . If i knew it, if i knew what would happen i probably would not have the courage to do it. I wouldnt be able to make a decision where i would know that i would certainly lose contact with my children. But im glad that i made it. And at this point in my life because i do have a very good life now and im where i want to be. We appreciate you sharing your story with us tonight thank you very much. Thank you. Coming up next, the american prisoner held in iran for ayear newayear new attempts to set free Jason Rezaian. And sheaths the top ranking ranking female in the service. Hi everyone. This is Al Jazeera America im john siegenthaler. Behindjohn siegenthaler. Behind bars. A u. S. Journalist marks one year in an iranian prison. We are working very hard. Could the landmark nuclear deal help set him free . Trumped up. I see rick perry the other day and hes hes doing very poorly in the polls. He put glasses on so people will think hes smart. Leading the republican field stealing the spotlight. How donald trump is changing the race for the white house. Making free. I was the first woman to make the rank of four star in the armed forces. Michelle howard, the highest ranking woman in the u. S. Navy. Plus art and cavism. I weiwei gets back a his freedom. Protesters against the nuclear deal in iran. The agreement which would ease economic sanctions in exchange for guarantees that tehran will not pursue Nuclear Weapons. Meanwhile, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry went to capitol hill today to convince lawmakers to vote for the deal. Congress has been given 60 days to review the accord. House Speaker John Boehner and others have vowed to defeat it. Defense secretary ash carter was also trying to sell the deal today this time in saudi arabia. It is the final stop on his three nation tour to ease concerns in the nation. Irans mid east rivals fear the deal could strengthen the country and trigger a regional arms race. Carter also visited israel and jordan this week. The Washington Post has asked iran to free their reporter. Lisa stark reports. There has been diplomatic pressure to free Jason Rezaian. His family has publicly pleaded for his release and now the United Nations has an urgent petition before it, arguing that rezaians detention violates iranian and international law. Marianna journalist Jason Rezaian has now spent one full year locked up in an iranian prison charged with espionage and other crimes that u. S. Officials call a sham. On the anniversary of his arrest, another call to free the 39yearold journalist. Freedom is his right. And we call again on iran, its government and its judiciary to let this decent and innocent man go. Reporter a Washington Post reporter rezaian and his wife were taken from their tehran home in the middle of the night last july. She is out on bail. His brother ali is relentlessly advocating for his release a situation that was complicated by the Iranian Nuclear deal. I think right now is the perfect time for the iranian government to show they can follow their own laws and yum hold their International Obligations and let jason go. Rezaian is one of three americans imprisoned in iran. A fourth is missing and believed jailed although the iranian government denies that. During the Nuclear Negotiations the 78th of the americans was brought up repeatedly on the sidelines. The two issues, though, were not linked. Secretary of state john kerry was asked about that. While on capitol hill to sell the nuclear deal. Jason rezaian has been in prison for over a year, his release part of this deal . Were work being very hard on that. Reporter hard liners are not happy with the deal and some believe they may try to block rezaians release but others see the agreement opening a path forward. United states and iran are in a new situation in which they are resolving problems in which then it would be very problematic to let issues like this linger on because it actually drags down the pace and ability to continue moving things in a positive direction in other areas. Reporter the Washington Post is trying to increase international pressure. By going to the United Nations. With an urgent petition to the u. N. S Working Group on arbitrary detention arguing rezaians imprisonment is arbitrary and unlawful. We believe that we have to work harder for ris re, and the United States has to work hard he for his release. We cant stop and we dont want the u. S. To stop. We believe they made efforts and diligent efforts so far but we want then to press even harder. Rezaians mother and wife have had limited ability to visit him in prison. Their stress is obvious. Their son husband and brother has been relentlessly interrogated, denied medical care and put in isolation. It is completely illegal by any standards and its just a horrible tragedy if theyve stolen the last year of my brothers life. Reporter as of now there is no way of knowing how much longer rezaian will wait for his freedom. Jason rezaian has had three closed door hearings in iran. Its believed there is one more to go before the judge issues his decision in this case. John. Lisa thank you. Back in this country theres a new battle raging over abortion and planned parenthood. It involves hidden camera videos that purport to show that planned parenthood illegally sells tissues from aborted fetuses. Planned parenthood vociferously denies this. Activists with an antiabortion group called the center for medical progress have been releasing secret recordings of planned parenthood employees. The center for medical profit describes itself as a Nonprofit Group of citizen journalists proving that planned parenthood has been selling fetal tissue. Donating fetal tissue for medical very much legal in the u. S. Selling tissue is not. Planned parenthood denies its doing anything illegal. I want to be really clear. The allegation that planned parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true. Reporter the president of planned parenthood said the videos misrepresent what her organization is trying to do. An organization that opposes safe and legal abortion used secretly recorded heavily edited videos to make outrageous claims. Although some of the language in the videos is alarming. In the video one of our Staff Members speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassion. This is unacceptable and i personally apologize for the Staff Members tone and statements. Capitol hill is reacting to the videos, senator rand paul introduced an amendment to cut off federal support for planned parenthood even though none of the amounts it he gets every year goes to support abortions. Nothing ive seen indicates planned parenthood violates american law. Though the center for progress did not return our calls, there is enough footage to release a influence video for every week for the next several months. John. While it does accept money for tissue donation the amount is nominal and goes for shipping and use of its facilities. In 2016 some political analysts are calling Donald Trumps campaign all but finished. They are citing his controversial remarks about john mccains war record. But support for trump only seems to be growing. David schuster reports. The fight over Donald Trumps controversial approach is escalating. Taunted senator Lindsay Graham a rival for the nomination. A total light weight. Hes a guy who in the private sector couldnt get a job believe me. Couldnt get a job. Graham has repeatedly criticized trump. Graham offered that. I dont care if he drops out say in the race, just stop being a jack jackass. Giving out grahams cell phone number. 202 two 2 twaib own twitter has called trump a cancer. I see rick perry the other day and hes so, you know hes doing very poorly in the polls. He put glasses on so people will think hes smart. It just doesnt work the latest fight stems from remarks that trump made over the weekend when he seemed at first to question senator john mccains status as a war hero. Hes not a war hero. Hes a war hero because he swas captured. I liked people that werent captured okay, i hate to tell you. Theres nothing funny about the hate he is spewing at immigrants and their families. And now the insults hes directed at a genuine war hero, senator john mccain. Reporter but attacking illegal immigration is music to the ears of many conservatives. And insulting john mccain can recess nate as well. Many voters on the right consider the arizona senator too moderate. Others have bought into lies about john mccains pow record spread against george bush 15 years ago in north carolina. And last week mccain appeared to start this new fight with trump, by accusing the reality tv star to, quote, fire up the crazies. That was a very insulting thing not good. Several republican strategists are convinced that despite the Mainstream Media trumps hyperbolic comments may increase not diminish him. Untrump has opened up a double digit lead against his rivelts jeb bush and scott walker, two align himself with veterans concerns. The Veterans Administration is a scandal. Its corrupt and whats going on is a grace disgrace. Republican strategist de de sorvino. He is is that good. His promotion of his own financial success. I will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. And trumps unvarnished ability to say what many voters may be thinking about todays politician he. We have losers we have losers we have people that dont have it. It all adds up to a controversial headlinegrabbing campaign that despite the conventional wisdom, may be far from dead. David schuster, al jazeera. Admiral Michelle Howard is no stranger to first. First African American woman to command oship and the first in any service to earn three stars. The first woman in u. S. Navy to reach the rank of four star admiral. Jamie mcintire sat down with her to talk about race, women in the military and what she has planned next. Admiral Michelle Howards climb up the stairs to her Pentagon Office is lch as fast almost as surface as her rise in the navy. A career on the fast track and while others sing her praises she was quick to admit she was lucky, the doors opened to her just as she was ready to stride through. When i sat down with the admiral i asked her to list her firsts. I was the first African American woman to command a ship in the United States navy. I was the first woman who was an indianapolisannapolis graduate. The first to reach the rank of three star. I was the first African American woman to reach the rank of four star in the armed forces. I was the first woman to reach the rank of four star in the navy, im the first woman to hold the rank of vice admiral in the United States. She showed me a letter from a nineyearold giferl. She writes im happy you know how to steer a navy ship and fight pirates. That referential to reference to fighting pirates . Stop the ship remember the true life movie captain phillips . As depicted i. T. Was admiral howards job as part of a counterpiracy task force to gain that position but back to the framed letter. That letter resonated with me not because of her recognition of what the navy does. At such a young age but because in that letter she talks about her family. And i thought wow she just must have the greatest mom and dad in the world. Howard knows a Little Something about great parents. So the journey to come into the navy actually starts when i was 12. I saw a documentary on a Service Academy and i thought oh gosh thats what i want to do. But back in the 70s the u. S. Naval academy wasnt open to women. But young michelles mom offered some surprising wisdom. If you still want to go and theyre still closed to women well sue the government. I was like, wow turches outturchesturns out they didnt have to sue. A door old just in time. Its been like that through her career. You have to punch tickets to get promoted in the navy. For instance, you need to command oship. Something that was barred to women until the 1990s about but another door opened. We saw a picture of you with your i believe it was commander epaulettes. That was my first day of command of the u. S. S. Rush plor. Rushmore. Were getting ready to go out for six months. One of the first woman Commanding Officers on the ship. Second in command she has an e ring Pentagon Office and a binder full of be awards. Shed like it if 25 of the force were female creating a Critical Mass to tip the balance against bias and stereotyping. The pentagon has decreed that all jobs in the military be open to women unless women cant perform to the same standards as men. So far none have made it through but in the navy there are few jobs left to open. Do you foresee any positions in the navy that are not going to be open to women . We had already made the decision to start putting women on submarines, and that was one of the few areas that women could not serve. Do you foresee there will be anything closed to women . Special force he navy seals for instance . For us seals will be the last area that gets looked at. My sense is if the opportunity will probably be there, it will be a matter of what are the occupational standards that will be needed in order for anyone, man or woman to qualify. Admiral howard has spent nearly four decades in what used to be called this mans navy back when Sexual Harassment was not on the radar. When change happens peoples heads hurt the way new shoes hurt their feet. So there were some hurtin minds out there when i started. And yep there were some folks who didnt behave the way they should have based. What do you think when you walk down this hall and youre surrounded by all these men of the navy . Well, one, it is a historical fact of where our country has gone. We started off that only men really could be citizens. And then for civilian oversight its predominantly been men. The history of women in leadership in the military for navy doesnt really start no. The First World War when we bring in women as enlisted. Howard admits being a trail blazer can be a better but it was her mother that vowed to sue in order to get where she wanted. I was venting to my mother on the phone. She said you are where you are historically. You had better embrace it or leave because its not going to change. Until you quit youre probably going to be the first one at whatever you do. I thought well, that is really great advice. I just need to embrace the journey. Jamie mcintire, al jazeera the pentagon. Coming up next, artist, chinese Artist Ai Weiwei gets his passport back, a look at his art and his oppression in china. California is home to hundreds of obscure committees, commissions and boards. Its not always clear what they do, but one thing is taxpayers are often left to pick up the bill. America tonights michael okwu has more. The golden state has seen its share of dark days. In the past decade billions have been cut from Services Like education, housing and healthcare. But millions have been spent on upscale commissions committees and boards. Each packed with staffers and employees. Ridiculous. But not surprising to doug johnson, a fellow at the Rose Institute at Claremont Mckenna college. We have 31 Standing Committees and multiple committees in the assembly and we have 40 select committees in the assembly. In the senate weve got 22 Standing Committees that are permanent and then multiple subcommittees, 16 select committees prospect then we get into the committees that report to committees. And monitor other committees. You realize that this sounds like a saturday night live skit. Yes it does. But what are they all doing . Do you know what the commission on uniform state laws does . No. I have no idea. But what about the legislators . Have they heard of some of these commission he, committees and boards . Im curious to find out if you know what the commissions of the americas is . No. Have you heard of the structural pest control board . No. There is the political practices commission. That one i honestly have no idea. Do we need all these committees these boards these commissions . No, theres no doubt that theres plenty of fluff and somewhat silliness. Take the Senate Advisory commission on cost control. Like the title suggests its chanched with controlling costs but a look at their website didnt reveal much of anything that the commission has done for years except post a couple of reports. We couldnt even figure out where they meet. It had more than 150,000 of expenses thats on top of the hundreds of thousands spent on staff salaries. It is criminally wrong to be wasting public dollars that are so desperately needed in other ways. If you are not indignant you are not paying attention. And thats the problem we heard from everyone we spoke to. Nobody is paying attention. Michael okwu, al jazeera sacramento. And you can see more of michaels report on america tonight, at 10 00 eastern time. As u. S. Officials debate the iran nuclear deal, one official said it should not have been pursued because it pose ed no threat. Antonio mora has the story. Norm chomsky said, what threat does iran actually pose . He said it lived up to its portion of the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty, and the u. S. Actually poses more threat. I dont think anyone would have Nuclear Weapons including the United States but thats not issue. If irans alleged noncompliance with the npt is an issue and i add alleged that certainly doesnt require sanctions or a treaty or any other action he. As we can see from the cases of radical nonviolation violation of the npt with u. S. Support. He goes on to argue that irans military expenditures would likely limit any Nuclear Weapons to be used as simply a deterrent. Hear much more of the interview with professor chons conversationy in our next hour. Interesting opinions. Controversial as well. Ai weiwei was detained in 2011 and his passport confiscated. Today he got it back and he plans to travel abroad for a landmark exhibition of his profound and provocative work. A standing ovation for ai weiwei in 2011. He wasnt even in the room. He was in china unable to leave the country. Government officials had confiscated his passport. In this video for ted talks he described the governments attempts to silence him. My flame cant even be tapped in china. The line would come out like illegal words being used. He has combined art and politics and a fearlessness for criticizing the communist party. An artist and advertise dent, ais work has made him one of chinas most prominent artists. This work drew huge crowds but works like this unsettled the chinese. A be deaf takings from the be szechuan earthquake. Maybe best known now for awareness he has created about the suffering of the parents who lost children in the szechuan earthquake by his fearless exposure of the corruption that led to inferior schools being built that collapsed in the earthquake. Criticized the 2008 olympics. In 2009 he said he paid the price. Saying he was badly beaten by police. Then in 2011, he was arrested when the government cracked down on dissidents. You have to understand if they are really, really authoritarian society theres no ream communication theres no discussion. Or even argument. Now with a passport in hand ai weiwei hopes he will be able to advance his message, it is time for china to embrace freedom in a modern era. Thats our broadcast. Im john siegenthaler. The news continues next with antonio mora. Debating iran. If they were to develop Nuclear Weapons which would be a big if. Norm chomsky challenges conventional wisdom. Spotlight on africa. I think president obamas be grade on