Hill where the House Foreign Affairs committee is about to hear from secretary of state john kerry, jack lew, and earnest muniz. Last week the three secretaries were grilled before a senate committee. Libby casey is live on capitol hill. Libby, good morning, last weeks hearing did get testy at least at times. Are we expecting the same today . Stephanie we certainly are. The House Republicans intend to go over their own set of questions, and well hear tough questions from democrats too. It wasnt just last weeks hearings where senators used words like you have been bamboozled and fleeced. The rhetoric and conversation continued throughout the week. We heard ted cruz speaking on the floor last week calling for an amendment, saying that iran must recognize israel before congress can sign off on this deal. That sort of thing wont happen and he got a lot of pushback even from some republicans over the weekend who accused him of using this issue to play president ial politics so we have seen
We want asylum in the u. K. Migrants desperately trying to get from france into the united kingdom. And blinding sand briefly seals off jordan from the world. Good evening, im tony harris this is Al Jazeera Al jazeera america. We begun in qatar, where secretary of state john kerry spent the day reassuring skeptical gulf allies that the u. S. s nuclear deal with iran is a good one. Kerry met with the emir of qatar first. He told officials the regions security is a top priority. Kerry then pledged to speed up u. S. Arms shares as well as share intelligence and step up joint military exercises. All iran to destabilize the region. They also believed tehran would use the money to increase support for groups like hezbollah and the houthis in yemen. He also met with russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Reporter a delicate mission for the u. S. Secretary of state. John kerry is trying to convince longstanding allies that Irans Nuclear deal with world powers will bring peace and prosperity. Trans
Video showing the military beating up two teenagers goes viral. We start with breaking news that is coming from the mediterranean sea. A rescue operation is underway to try to save migrants from a capsized boat. Irish Navy Commanders say 700 people have thought to be on board the vessel, very close to the libyan coast. Local journalist joins us now on the line from the mortese capitol. Karl what more do you know . Reporter this is indeed a major rescue operation which is currently underway after [ inaudible ] boat with some 700 migrants was reported capsized off of libya. [ inaudible ] some 250 have been rescued in the mission, which is now being coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard. 16 bodies are reported to have been taken on board one of the rescue vessels. However, unconfirmed numbers of how many migrants could be dead in this incident are still speculative. However, it is feared that hundreds are feared dead. The boat is reported to have sunk after it capsized in an event which
Countrys leaders, g. O. P. Opponents or rosy odonnell. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy. Two prominent democrats they will vote against the Iran Nuclear Program in congress. Schumer whos vote is widely seen as influential says after much soul searching, he has decided he will oppose the agreement. John terrett is live in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Well, this is a big deal. This is all set against the background of earlier this week, president obama and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu lobbying jewish groups in the United States in favor and against, of course, the iran deal, and my extension they were lobbying politicians here as well. And the reason for that, we saw the president addressing a crowd at American University earlier this week. The reason this intense lobbying is happening before the Congress Leaves Town for the summer vacation. The house is gone. The senate has wrapped up its business, and the id
Peace deal, we will be working on it very, very diligently. Nationalist, Anti Immigrant, in power. Why polands controversial government provokes protest but still retains great support. Welcome to the programme. Im katty kay in washington, christian frasers in london. Nonsense is how President Trump describes news reports that his Campaign Team were in regular contact with russian officials during the election campaign. He followed up with this tweet information is being illegally given to the failing nytimes and washingtonpost by the Intelligence Community nsa and fbi . Just like russia. He was on a bit of a twitter storm this morning at a Press Conference in the past couple of hours, mr trump had this to say. Michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media. As i call it, the fake media, in many cases. I think its really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. I think, in addition to that, from intelligence, papers are being