And safe behind bars. Translation im worried that once im outside doors will be shut opportunities for a new life will be closed how prison is a refuge for young women trapped in el salvadors vicious gang wars good evening, im antonio mora this is it Al Jazeera America. We begin in washington. For the second time president obamas top cabinet secretaries were on capitol hill defending the iran nuclear deal. Secretary of state john kerry testified with Energy Secretary ernst monnees, and treasury secretary jack luce facing the senate last week. House lawmakers grilled the trio questioning the decision to lift sanctions on iran. Kerry hit back, saying sanctions would not prevent iran Building Nuclear weapons. Libby casey reports on the contentious hearing. Reporter round two on capitol hill for the chief negotiators and pitch men for a deal not sitting well with republicans or top democrats. As i condition to review the deal theres a number of issues i find troublesome. Secretary of state
Protections for the American Press contrast with those of their foreign counterparts. Welcome. Thanks for coming on a saturday morning in the summer. I would think we have a great panel here on President Trump and the press and the First Amendment. Before do anything else id like to introduce really a wonderful panel, and i thank them for coming out. To my immediate left is floyd abrams. Floyd is a cato gordon ryno writing your picky then preeminent First Amendment attorney in this country formerly the last 40 or so years, worked on the pentagon papers case for the new times back in 1971, spin in the Supreme Court for just about every major Media Organization or high Appellate Courts since then, and is a matter of full disclosure, i should say that 43 years ago today i was working about three offices down the hall from it as a Summer Associate at cato gordon sort of know each other and been friends for a long time. To his immediate left is jim rutenberg. Jim is the media columns of the
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen lets get to the Market Action yesterday a pretty big selloff we did come off the lows by the end of the day still down just over a percent for the dow. A little less than that for the s p and the nasdaq financials took a big hit that sector within the s p down 3 insurers down more than 3 of course theres another hurricane and storm approaching landfall or makes landfall last night, that was onefactor. We saw the banks selloff almost as much. Yields moving lower. Either way, we are bouncing back a bit today. The dow called higher by 30 points nasdaq by 16 s p bir 4 poiy 4 points the tenyear treasury which saw a significant move lower in yields ended friday 2. 16 yesterday the low was 2. 06 now 2. 075. A large part of that, all of that risk off move yesterday was down to north korean tensions. And the same thing is weighing on asian stocks this morning. Looking at the equities overseas, the nikkei is off by 0. 15 .
The Korea Foundation and the ambassador here to give some opening remarks. Before before i introduce them, is would like to say a few words about safety. We feel very secure in our building but we have a duty to prepare for any event. My name is lisa collins. Im a fellow and i will serve as your responsible Safety Officer for this event. Please follow my instructions should the need arise. Please also familiarize yourself with emergency exits in the back of the room on the right and on the left. Now to introduce our first two speakers, the investor is currently the president of international pretty with the deputy of state and the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for asia and east Pacific Affairs in the office of defense. Is he has had a distinguished career in government and policy. He was south koreas ambassador to the oecd from 2013 until 2015. Investor lee has had a long esteemed career working in south koreas ministry of foreign affairs. They will give her marks first follow
Eisen. Lets get to the top developing stories at this hour. The first one, British Police are on the scene of an apparent explosion on the London Underground. It happened at Parsons Green in the west part of the city. Youre looking at pictures taken from the scene witnesses say several people were trampled as they tried to flee the tube, those reports have not been confirmed. Well continue to monitor the situation and bring you more as we get. Were following big developments out of north korea after that nation launched another missile over japan this morning local time the launch prompting japanese residents to take cover. Officials sayit landed in the Pacific Ocean. Well have a live report from the region in one moment first lets check Market Action. Lets look at asian trade not too disappointing despite another significant test in particular always worth looking at the japanese and korean markets both of which ending the week on a positive note. Shanghai down a half percent if youre