There is no ceremony going on but well check in with our correspondent there. Overnight, libby the state department added the cuban flag to the display of the flags of the world. At this embassy now how long has that flagpole been waiting for the cuban colors to be raised . Its been five and a half weeks waiting to see the cuban flag raised in washington. Of course, people have been waiting for more than five decades since 1961 that the cuban flag was flown at the embassy, and that there was this kind of a presence. We have hundreds of people gathered at the embassy and we have a lot of people on the streets. Stephanie, its mostly the gathering of the of the of people pushing for the lifting of the embargo of the United States against cuba. Were not seeing a high presence of protesters. By far the signs say lift the embargo now. How vocal have congressional critics of the carbon monoxiding relations with cuba. I know we heard from at least one president ial candidate. Absolutely. And e
Restricted because they cant push beyond the havana city limits. This is an island the size of new york to cleveland here. Now theyll a broader reach of what they can do inside cuba. Not complete freedom. I hear there is something going on outside of the Cuban Embassy. I want to speak in with our correspondent out there, libby casey. We saw as the flag raising was happening a lot more chanting and a lot more activity out there where you are. Tell us what youre seeing and hearing. Stephanie, by and large the protests are lifting the embargo. Theyre not protesting against the castro government, against cuba itself. Were hearing about long live cuba. Long live raul, and long live fidel castro. But we saw one protester who was against the castro government. He was just arrested. He was covered in a red substance that was supposed to look like blood. It was a powder. The police were wearing gloves as they handled him. They were working to get him away from this site. That was a powerful ima
Message that mccain was no hero. Now the senator is sending a message to trump. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. For the first time in five decades the cuban flag is flying over that countrys embassy in washington, d. C. The embassy reopened just a few hours ago as did the embassy in washington, d. C. The embassy in havana did not as much fanfare as there was in washington. No ceremony, no flag raising thats because many cubans are unsure how restoring relations will effect them. Cubans are excited about normalization. With that announcement by president obama and raul castro back in december of last year with their intentions to normalize relations people saying there was a sense of exhilaration in havana and people had tears streaming down their faces. Six months on there is cautious optimism when you ask people how they feel, and whooping 97 of cubans in a survey conducted by the washington post, 97 of cubans support normalization but how is t
Today about the nuclear deal with iran with the u. S. And five other world powers and tie ran a few weeks ago and go straight to libby casey on capitol hill what is the atmosphere leading to this hearing . A build up not just in the past week as we watched news of the nuclear deal come up but for months because congress knew this day was likely to come and this is the first public opportunity for members of the Obama Administration to talk directly to Congress Members who they really want to win over to their perspective and so there is a lot of build up to this very moment. Now the administration has been Briefing Members behind closed doors and also tried to make some public pushes and saw president obama himself come out last week and talk about the deal but this is where the rubber meets the road stephanie and members of Congress Want the opportunity to ask genuine questions and also to show constituents back home they are pushing the administration to get details, to make sure tha
And a member of your caucus acknowledged that the full sentence was any time anywhere in the sense of a well defined process with a well defined end time. So im pleased we have established that. The iaea can request access to any suspicious location with 24 hours notice under the additional protocol. The deal was not change that baseline. The issue if there is then agreement is not reached, then when the iaea requests access this 24day clock will will start. The and this is a new tool a finite time a new tool for resolving disputes within what we think is a short period of time. And short is defined because of our confidence in environmental sampling that we will then be able to have to implement to detect microscopic traces of Nuclear Materials even after attempts are made to remove the evidence of of of activities with nuclear material. And irans history provides a god good example. In 2003 the iaea requested access. It was denied. Negotiations dragged out for six months, but even af