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Transcripts For ALJAZAM News 20240622

Thanks for joining us. President obama begins his hard sell to a very Skeptical Congress over the nuclear deal with iran. That agreement cannot be implemented until congress has 60 days to review it and during that time, the president cant lift economic sanctions. Lease stark is live on capitol hill with the latest. How deep is the opposition to this deal . It is a very Skeptical Congress, a lot of criticism before law maker had a chance to pour through the details. Many say the president simply abandoned his goals for this agreement he was soilier to get a deal. Heres speaker of the house john boehner. Hes going to hand a dangerous regime billions of dollars in sanctions relief while paving the way for a nuclear iran. Boehner said i will do everything he can to stop the deal. Some democratics are also very worried and concerned about the agreement. On the senate side, harry reid urged patience. Documents of 100 pages long. I havent read it. I talked to the president last night. I think what im going to do and recommend this, lets find out what we have first. Now there are hearings on the agreement expected in the next two or three weeks and Congress Goes on its august recess and will vote when they come back in september. They could vote to approve the deal disprove it or decide not to vote at all. You are describing the degree of skepticism here but how much power does Congress Really have . Can it block this deal easily . Well certainly members of congress cant change the deal, they cant stop the feel from going into effect but do have control of lifting those sanctions against iran. If there is deep skepticism and it remains then it is very likely there will be a measure of disapproval passed. The president has already indicated he would veto such a measure and then well to have wait and see whether both chambers can find two thirds of a vote to override the veto. Vice President Joe Biden is expected on the hill. What is he going to say that the president hasnt already . Hes going to have a closed door meeting with house departments later this morning. Hes going to obviously answer any questions any concerns, and hes really going to try to shore up support on the democratic side, because that will be critical if the president does veto this legislation. Hes going to tell them they need to stand with the president and that this is a historic agreement. That deal will be a tough sell in the middle east, as well, questions over compliance and verification are leaving doubts in israel and saudi arabia. In tehran for now the iranian leader who made that deal is being hailed also a hero. Iranian foreign minister just returned home from vienna. Here to break that down for us is patrick joining us by skype got director of research at the Washington Institute for near east policy. You were briefed by Administration Officials yesterday. Was this in your opinion a good deal or bad deal . Its a very complicated deal and working through it is going to take some time. Those people offering snap judgments, does not reflect well on their judgment to do that. Now, the other thing we have to know is what is the administration going to do to accompany the deal. You mentioned middle east concerns about the deal. They are worried irans aggressive and assertive behavior feeling that this deal recognizes irans role as a Regional Power. The administration has to layout a strategy for dealing with irans actions in the region. Thats what henry kiss in injury and George Schultz called for in their op ed in the wall street journal a few months ago explain to us how this nuclear deal fits into an overall strategy for iran. Help me understand the strategy, the nuts and boats of it. You wrote to the president expressing concern and asking for a number of safeguards. Were those met in the deal you saw yesterday . Ive got to work through the details, because not even secretary kerry seems to know all of the details. He was very surprised when reporters ask him wipe the head of irans infamous force was one of the people listed as getting sanctions relief. The treatment is that hes getting sanctions relief from the Nuclear Sanctions but even terrorism. Even the secretary of state didnt seem to know all the details. The centrifuge restrictions come off pretty quickly. Does that leave iran a really short breakout time to build a bomb, should other people in the region critics like israel be worried. President obama a couple of months ago said the deal being discussed and the deal reached actually, leaves iran at the end of the deal, mainly at the end of 15 years only a few weeks away from having a Nuclear Material for a bomb and thats true. This deal is buying us time. If you think thats a good deal, you better have a plan for how we are going to use the 10 or 15 years. What are we going to do during that period. Follow up and follow through is what you are saying. Well why did it remove the state list of terrorisms . We need to have a plan for what to do about irans other activities that disturb us. For instance, the support for president assad in syria who has killed over 200,000 people, mostly with iranian weapons. What are we going to do to stop that . Once lawmakers have read the fine print and started to hammer out details how do you envision that vote going . What i would hope i also that there would be a bipartisan consensus on how to make the deal stronger and better. What is likely to happen is it will be one of those partisan cat fights. Live from montreal, thanks for being with us. Thank you for having me. Well speak to former israel Prime Minister in the next hour about israels objections to this deal. Thats coming up at 8 30 eastern. Outrage this morning now that the public is getting a first look at dash cam video of a Fatal Police Shooting that happened near los angeles two years ago. An attorney for the victims family says it shows a cold blooded killing. Johnjohn henry smith has the latest. That video seems to conflict with what Police Officers originally said. That may very well be why Media Outlets had to go to court to get the video. A a judge set a 4. 7 million settlement. Some might consider this video graphic. Around 2 00 a. M. John two 2013, gar deanna california officers responding to a 911 call about a stolen bike stopped three men. While two of the men remained still with their hands up, the third does not. On the video officers can be heard shouting in english and in spanish for him to keep his hands up. L. A. County District Attorney later wrote that his friends say that he was trying to explain to them that they were not the thieves and that the police had the wrong men. In fact, it was his brothers bike that had been stolen and the men were searching for the theyve. The d. A. s report says that the dispatcher significantly escalated the seriousness of the crime reported by alerting officers to a violent felony rather than a petty theft. All of the officers present reported feeling fear as he visually put his hands up and down although the video does not seem to support their report that he put his handled into his waistband. Officers said they warned they would shoot if he dropped his hands again and say they fired after losing site of his right hand. The officers shot him eight times and his friend once. He died, the friend survived. The police chief called the incident a tragic for all involved. He says the department will equip all Police Officers with body cameras. He said they will appeal the decision to release the video. The department did not discipline the officers and the District Attorney did not press charges. A federal judge said the city cant seal the videos just to cover up wrongdoing on their part or to shield themselves from embarrassment. I think we can agree with the police chief that that was in fact tragic for everyone. Very shocking video. Thanks very much. The state of james homes i also now in the hands of a colorado jury. Jurors will deliberate this morning whether he is guilty for killings in a colorado theater. His lawyers say he was insane at the time. Prosecutors argued he acted with clear intent. He came in with overwhelming fire power. He brought with him over 700 rounds including steel penetrating rounds and he shot anything and everything he could. If the juror agrees with prosecutors, he faces life in prison or the death penalty. If they agree with the defense hell be indefinitely confined to a mental hospital. There is a new county clerk on adult this morning in deindicate at your county, tennessee. This comes after the entire Clerks Office quit, objecting to the Supreme Court decision to legalize samesex marriage. Officials promise it will be business at usual. Its the picture of americas rural south with Church Steeples flags and store fronts from another era. Since the Supreme Court decision to make samesex marriage legal this tiny region of west tennessee has been reeling. The entire county clerk office resigned, saying the high court ruling, which meant issuing marriage licenses to gay couples clashed with their religious beliefs. Are most of the people in this county and on the commission against what the Supreme Court has ruled . Ous whether its a majority off not. Id say theres a high probability that the majority are. In the past few weeks Decatur County is facing unique challenges joanne interim county clerk was voted in at acknowledge emergency meeting and taken over the job of granting marriage licenses, including same sex application. We have now overcome those challenges. To do this, our county has come together from the county commission to the citizens of Decatur County and miss broadway who has stepped forward to take on the county clerks position. So far Decatur County has not had any couples apply for a same sex license. You can see the mayor and new county clerk did not want to answer questions did not want to go on air. The mayor said that he would but clearly this is a hot topic charged issue in the county, frankly the state over 80 of the people here against samesex marriage, according to a recent poll so people are keeping their opinions to themselves, but this county has a new county clerk. Drew baker of the tennessee equality project is not one to keep his opinions quiet. His organization has been preparing for much of the safety counties not to comply with the scotus decision. But then the governor came out really quickly after the decision came down on the 26th and said that the State Government would comply, and i was surprised frankly that he came out so quickly and vocally in support of the ruling. In the past week, similar scenarios played out in arkansas and mississippi with county clerks refusing to issue marriage license to say gay couples and resigning after citing religious reasons. In kentucky, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis got into a Heated Exchange with a gay couple just last week. A federal judge in the state has issued a decision on whether county clerk davis can use her reege beliefs to justify not issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. We own a property here, pay taxes here, we live here. We have our rights. Its not her choice. The first case of its kind in the nation. Robert ray, al jazeera decaturville, tennessee. It is decision time for greek lawmakers. Parliament votes whether to accept bailout terms but will greek accept the deem. A starbucks expansion that brings the company closer to the source of its coffee. Stay tuned. Good morning to you. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford from new york city. Heres a look at todays top stories. Flashing flooding washed away dozens of homes in kentucky. Two people have been killed after caught in rushing water. At least six people are missing after several had to be rescued from trees or cars. The former bookkeeper of auschwitz has been convicted for his role in some 300,000 murders. The 94yearold has been sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to moral guilt at that infamous concentration camp. He insisted he was not legally responsible for those deaths. New details of the prison break that freed the worlds most wanted drug lord. Mexican authorities released this security cam video showing the moment that El Chapo Guzman escaped a maximum security prison. They are offering a nearly 4 million reward just to find him. The Greek Parliament is meeting to consider the latest european bailout proposal and deep cuts backed by Prime Minister alexis tsipras. Civil service and other workers are on strike today protesting the proposed spending cuts. Banks will remain closed in greece until tomorrow. Some restrictions have been lifted. People can now make transfers to accounting within the same bank. We are live in athens this morning. Theres been a lot of activity there around parliament this morning. What exactly is going on . Thats right. Greek civil Service Workers marched to Parliament Today to protest economic reform measures. Prime minister tsipras must convince a majority of lawmakers to pass by midnight tonight. They have to pass in order to move forward with a bailout package even marsher than the one a majority of greeks rejected in a referendum just a little over a week ago. Now, not only is this package harsher than the one rejected, but many see these terms as intrusive and humiliating but the other choice, greek banks will almost surely go under putting agreement deposits at risk of being wiped out or seized and that is the stark choice facing lawmakers today. Help us understand, what exactly is the mood within syriza right now . Within syriza, this is the stark choice. An m. P. Told us that even though in her heart she does not want to vote to pass the reform measures, they have no other choice. She sees it as taking one step back to mooch two steps forward. Its a political calculation. We did speak to one syriza m. P. Tsipras is going to have to go to to get this passed. This is the anti austerity party, but they really have no other choice because they have to keep banks afloat. They dont want to see the banks go under. Still a lot of work left to be done. Thank you from athens this morning. Starbucks, one of americas favorite Coffee Companies is coming to south africa next year. A local company will operate them. Locations in other african nations could soon follow. Starbucks has stores in egypt and morocco and sources coffee from Nine Countries in africa. Saving the honey bees, the role Climate Change is playing in destroying one of the worlds most important in sects. Stay tuned. June it is first solar power plane to try flying around the world is grounded until next year. The team behind it said it suffered battery damage on its way from japan to hawaii. Unanticipated temperature changes caused that damage. Engineers hope to get that plane flying again by next april. 70 years ago this week, the first atomic bomb went off in new mexico. The government tested it just miles from where people are sleeping. As Tristan Anton reports today residents are still feeling the effects. On the morning of july 16 1945 many new mexicans knew something happened in the desert. A bright flash came up over these hills and was seen 200 miles away in gallup, a shock wave felt in albuquerque. An Associated Press story stated that a munitions magazine exploded, but it was a military cover story a ruse to hide what really took place here on the United States first test of an atomic weapon, code named trinity. Those living near the site were not told about radiation dangers. There was no mention of a nuclear test. Those living in the trinity blast zone are known as down winders and hundreds diagnosed with cancer. I would just like to ask everybody out there that is a cancer survivor or battling cancer right now to please stand up, if you would. They want the u. S. Government to compensate them, but a 1990 law, called the radiation exposure compensation act specifically does not cover new mexican civilians. Do you have any idea how much Cancer Treatment costs . 306,346, almost a third of a Million Dollars was submitted to my insurance company. I think what this is about and this is my fight and this is about justice for people that were harmed by the government. Senator tom udall wants to change that but faces resistance in congress. Well have that full story later today. Al jazeera on the White Sands Missile range in new mexico. The full report is at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Colorado board of health will vote on whether ptsd can be treated with medical marijuana. The board rejected it twice now but another vote was recommend. Recreational pot is legal but medical marijuana is much cheaper because of taxes. Nine other states do treat ptsd with medical pot. Researchers say Climate Change is killing bum basketball bees. The food you eat will likely be affected. Lets bring in Nicole Mitchell for todays Environmental Impact. Is Climate Change the cause . The actual pollution itself that causes Climate Change all factor

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