declaring victory. president obama, very clear, contrast with the failed policy that led to the iraq war, the mindset he said we had to change. clearly, he went up against the architects of this war who tried to kill his iran deal. he won. we have a deal that stops an iran bomb and stops a new iran war. as far as president rohani is concerned, let s have a new relationship. i had din were him two years ago. it was clear from that dinner conversation he saw the nuclear agreement at the beginning of areas where the u.s. and iran could cooperate. you heard both leaders paving the way for that. other areas in the region with the u.s. and iran might cooperate to advance their mutual strategic objectives. this is another snippet of what president obama said today at the united nations with regard to iran. take a listen. this deal is fully
fanfare in 1869. just seven meters deep and at its widest 90 meters across. the operating company had a 99-year lease. investors, mostly french made vast profits, as did the british. the suez canal, storm center of controversy for weeks, now becomes a cause of war in a lightning sequence of diplomatic and military moves. reporter: in 1956 the canal was nationalized by egypt s president nasser. in this the suez crisis france and britain ultimately lost their controlling influence. war in the middle east. reporter: the canal featured in the arab-israeli conflict in 1967 the so-called six-day war, and remained closed for eight years. now perhaps more than ever the current egyptian government is promoting it as a symbol of nationhood and in its expanded form as some kind of rebirth. this time only egyptians were
and that even some of his fellow democrats are now wary of the iran deal. madam secretary, this agreement or war? is that the choice? simple yes or no. i don t think it s a simple yes or no. reporter: the white house chose american university as the backdrop for the speech to invite comparisons to president kennedy s historic address at the school in 1963. kennedy s adversary, a nuclear soviet union. where in the final analysis our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. we all breathe the same air. we all cherish our children s futures. and we are all mortal. reporter: the president urged the nation to follow kennedy s lead. now more than ever we need clear thinking in our foreign policy. reporter: with the white house giving up on attracting much gop support the speech was really aimed at nervous democrats. but republicans are outraged that the president compared them to iranian hardliners. senate majority leader mitch
shift making torpedoes at a military factory. after the blast she says she saw horrors here by the river. translator: i still remember the day very well because this was a river filled with dead bodies. people were burned and they jumped into the river. reporter: takeoka survived the ordeal and eventually went on to become an outspoken activist campaigning around the world against war and nuclear proliferation. hiroshima was rebuilt, along with a peace park to honor the victims. the museum here chronicles the devastating effects of the a-bomb, leaving some visitors grappling with very difficult questions. in america a lot of the textbooks talk about how necessary it was to see the to release the bomb and have all these innocent civilians die. but when you really look at it from a moral standpoint it s like was this really necessary? did we have to do this? reporter: scott baker
reporter: never again. and surprisingly for an american citizen such as myself and other americans that i ve talked to here after all it was the u.s. that dropped two atomic bombs on japan, hastening the end of the war but at the expense of hundreds of thousands of civilian lives, perhaps a surprising thing that i think americans observe when they visit here is there seems to be no ill will from the communities here from the japanese population in the museum exhibits here that the message instead that was repeated by that survivor is look at the horrors that were inflicted 70 years ago and do not let them happen again. an important message indeed. ivan watson reporting live from hiroshima. thank you so much. we ll be right back. once there was a hushpuppy by dan romer and ben zeitlin is man kind? are we good?