Chattanooga coming together in the wake of the shooting that took the lives of five members of the u. S. Military. Iwe begin tonight with that historic chapter in the relations between the u. S. And cuba. Tomorrow in washington a cuban flag will fly over a new Cuban Embassy for the first time in more than 50 years. At the state department, the cuban flag will be added to the flags of other 150 other nations. In havana where the anticipation is building. Havana, any other day on the island inflation. For those americans worried or concerned about missing out on retrocuba, time is on jury side. Yes, change is coming to the caribbean island nation but it wont happen overnight. It could take years. The relationship between washington and havana is difficult. And the opening of an embassy is not expected to change that dynamic. But a poll taken earlier this year showed 97 of cubans supportingsupporting normalizing ties with the u. S. Theres happiness and relief but also a sense of cautious optimism. Translator of course the opening of the embassy wont solve all of the problems we have had. This is just like a door opening. It represents a possibility but beyond that it is necessary to continue normalize efforts. Jorge and melissa teach at the university. Academia is one of the places that americans and cubans have had a limited contact. For me the core of this issue is with the reestablishment of diplomatic ties some processes will speed up such as the granting of visas especially for professors and students going both ways. Reporter a number of american universities already have agreements with campuses in cuba, including brown column and johns hopkins. Americans want to know more about this island, other than it being a terrible communist island. We need to know more about the u. S. Other than scary imperial imperialism. Jerry rivera says they lack the basic resources. From the point of view of helping us eventually getting a good job students need better resources. Internet access is very important for us. And for our study. Rivera grew up in romario a run down neighborhood on the outskirts of havana. He adds its difficult learning how cubans living here for example might benefit from normalization. Translator it is going to have an impact on the economy and especially in tourism but in neighborhoods like this the impact will not be immediate. But in the long run the relationship between our countries has been renewed but it is going to be a process. Is. Reporter most painfullyfelt here the embargo lifting what they call the blockade. Changed things most things will yet stay the same. Melissa chan, al jazeera havana. While one cold war battle appears to be thawing a new one is just beginning. Donald trump igniting a fire storm about negative comments about senator john mccains war record, most of that fire is coming from republicans. They are furious about trumps total disregard for the arizona senator. Reporter unapologetic, a decertify ant donald trump hit the sunday talk show circuit refusing to take back what he said about mccains war record. Do you owe mccain an apology . Not at all. After the reality tv star turned gop president ial hopeful questioned senator mccains at all times as a war hero. Hes not a war here row hes a war here owe because he was captured. I like people that werent captured okay, i late to tell you. Hes a war hero because he was captured. A former Navy Fighter Pilot mccain was badly wounded when his aircraft was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967. Where i almost decide. During his five and a half years as a prisoner of war mccain endured bouts of torture but refused Early Release to show solidarity with other american pows. Other records others were quick to defend. Donald trump oas owes every American Veteran and particularly john mccain an apology. Trumps comments all but disqualified him to be president says one. There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably. Democratic president ial hopeful Hillary Clinton also took aim at trumps latest political bombshell. There is nothing funny about the hate he is spewing at immigrants and their families. And now the insults hes directed at a genuine war hero, senator john mccain. Trump and mccain have been exchanging insults since last week when the arizona senator accused trump of firing up the crazies with antiimmigration remarks. By partisan backlash against trump, silence may well be mccains most effective weapon in this war of words. Patricia sabga, al jazeera. As for trump he didnt serve a single day in the military. Records obtained from the freedom of information act from the smoking gun website said he avoided war by going to College Receiving four student deperments when being registered at the Wharton School of economy. Michael shure said the republican feeding frenzy against trump was only a matter of time. It says wait a second, we are still a club, we republicans or we democrats its the same on the other side, you dont break those rules or go after one of our own in that way. The candidate emeritus, the standardbearer emeritus like john mccain is. People who like trump are concerned that trump is exposing that embarrassing underbelly the perceived old party of white men who dont like women blacks or hispanics . Old white men or young white men, if you look at it on paper. Donald trump is just like that and i think the problem that trump runs in here, this has to come from the within the Party Republicans dont embrace him as one of their own. It has to come from within. Investigators are pouring over the contents of Mohammed Abdulazeezs cell phone and computer. The trip he took to jordan, the son was not the son we knew and loved, end quote the internet making it difficult for the government to find every threat. Father was on a watch list, was under an investigation that was closed. Well be looking at all those details, but you know this is again the new sort of threat thats out there over the internet thats very hard to stop. We have 200,000 i. S. I. S. Tweets per day. On monday a tennessee congressman is going to introduce a bill that would allow Service Members to carry weapons on military bases and at recruiting centers. As for chattanooga, it has been slowly putting the pieces back together since thursdays attacks. There have been mearlts a plearms a blood drive and a memorial from bikers. Gathering by the hundreds to lon the four marines and one sailor. Theres people as far as nashville, a group out of knoxville, people out of where im at, in madisonville. Theyre just a bunch of godloving countryloving people. Followed by a line of cars and trucks they take same route as the killer, three days earlier, ending at the military facility where the fatal shootings happened. Millie a desert storm veteran says her wounds make it difficult for her to ride. A decided red white and blue tinge to services. First responders signal out an answer. We are proud americans and we will treat our americans right. At this blood mobile, 60 donors sign up before noon, replenishing supplies depleted in the blood giving during the crisis. As soon as we locked down people kept pouring into our facilities. Donations are quadrupled in the last few days. It is a long healing process but were at the beginning. Were very proud happy to be able to help. Its never going to be better people they lost their family. Theres help too at the moon pie general store. 10 of the sales will go to victims families. Sadly this is the second time the company has done so recently. Their store in South Carolina did the same after nine people were killed in the charmts churchcharlestonchurch shootings in june. A month later it happens in chattanooga. Its horrible. There is normal life here too. The downtown saturday market is busy. Chattanooga a changed town perhaps a proud and patriotic city whose sense of self and trust has been threatened. There is a sense of moving past this, we will get past this, we are chattanooga. Allen schauffler, al jazeera chattanooga, tennessee. Secretary of state john kerry hitting the sunday morning talk show circuit today. Kerry heading to capitol hill this week hoping to persuade law makeers skeptical of the disagreement. He says there should be enough open minds to agree with it. Deciding whether or not to sign off, they are not only ones to be convinced. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is on the road. Saudi crown Prince Mohammed ben salman getting a tour of the Franklin Roosevelt an every to reassure the saudis that their seven decades long friendship with washington remains. A stop by ash carter to reinforce that message. The saudis have reached more than 90 billion of weapons deals with the u. S. Some of the hardware has been deployed by the saudis along with their Cooperation Council partners, in the you yemen war fight against Houthi Rebels whom the saudis regard as irans proxies. The way i described earlier the objective there is to restore a political process there in which a legitimate government can be established. Reporter but that cooperation hasnt quieted saudi anxiety over what they call irans mischief across the region. In particular, tehrans financial and military life lines to syrias bashar alassad. Othis comes back to iranian Saudi Strategic rivalry in the thought that theyre not pushing back in the gulf and the levant and elsewhere. Missile weapons jointly with the pent gone carter will follow up his bosss message to netanyahu last week. In providing them additional security assurances from the United States. Insurances whose specifics for now remain unspoken but not as yet enough to keep netanyahu from giving up his appeal to the u. S. Congress to reject the deal. Tom ackerman, al jazeera washington. A series of car bombs in gaza city at least four bombs targeting Senior Palestinian officials. I. S. I. L. Is claiming responsibility. And later, a mystery playing out in south korea. A man accused of being a spy is found dead. He stood in that bathroom and nobody went to help him. How many people have to get raped before somebody says whoa, we got a problem . Faultlines. What do we want . Al jazeera americas hardhitting. Today the will be arrested. Groundbreaking. Theyre firing canisters of gas at us. Emmy awardwinning, investigative series. We have to get out of here. It has been a busy weekend in the u. S. Led Coalition Air fight against i. S. I. L. Be six targets in syria and ten in iraq. No word yet on just how many people were killed. Meanwhile, i. S. I. L. Is claiming responsibility for four explosions in gaza city today attacking officials from hamas and islamic jihad. Stefanie dekker is there. A bomb is placed under a fuel tank. The huge explosion first we thought it was israel attacking us then we realized its from inside gaza. Thats scary when your enemy is one of your brothers are if your country. We should protect each other. Reporter they were quick to say all is under control and a number of arrests have been made but no specific group has been named. Its not the first time that hamas has been attacked from within. Often salafi groups, or Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Hamas say i. S. I. L. Is trying to destabilize gaza. Any instability of gaza will be seen as a weakness of hamas and often these salafi groups launch attacks against israel, and any attacks against israel also cause hamas instability because israelis hold hamas as responsible for missiles coming out of gaza. Its a year since israel and palestinian factions led by hamas fought a 51day war. Much of gaza has not been rebuilt. There is high unemployment and israel maintains its blockade on the strip. Add to that attacks coming from within. Im really afraid what will be next. Now its a car maybe next its a mosque or a hospital, you never know. The salafi group says they want hamas to implement islamic rule. It is hard for hamas to show they are in control. Hamas faces a real challenge when it comes to maintaining stability. Its not the first attack on hamas by groups inside gaza but it is the biggest. Even though there is no fatalities, it is something that has hamas extremely concerned. Stefanie dekker, al jazeera gaza. The u. K. Could soon step up its fight against i. S. I. L. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron says he considers i. S. I. L. A threat to the nations security. Days after the Defense Department admitworking with the United States launching air strikes in syria and iraq. Houthis attacking aden just days after officials claim it was houthifree. Further north 28 rebels reportedly killed in taizz. More than 3500 people have been killed since the escalation of the conflict three months ak. Next to a body officials find a note in which a man denies spying. Harry fawcett reports from seoul. Found dead in his car in an apparent suicide next to him a three page will, part of that will has been released to the media on sunday in which the agent says he can reassure the south korean public that the Hacking Program he was involved in and whose technical operations he was also involved in was not used against south korean civilians. He also apologizes for deleting some of the data, he was being overzealous in attempting to keep the controversy from the nis, restricted its usage to the monitoring of north korean agents and foreigns with links to the north korean regime. However the service does have form in this area in the past, the two spy chiefs in charges between 1999 and 2003 were both convicted having overseen the monitoring of over 200,000 South Koreans in the world of business and media. And just in 2012 the agency was found to have used its Online Presence to smear the liberal opponent of the president ial election, park gung he. The nis is saying it will reveal further information to reassure the south korean public in the coming week. Law makeers in the South Korean Parliament are saying that the information that was deleted by this man should be restored to check exactly how it had been used this Hacking Program. It was one of the bloodiest chapters in african history a regime accused of killing as many as 40,000 people between 1982 and 1990. Now, the former president of chad is going to stand trial in daccar a trial being held on the african connent. Reporter about to face the man he believes is responsible for his torture. Hes rehearsed the moment time and time again. He knows exactly what he will say and how he will act. One look at former chadian president jason habre and the memories start coming back. Electric shocks, the choking. And all the faces of people he was forted to bury during his four year confinement under habres rule. Translator hes plunged an entire nation for eight long years into desperation and violent darkness. Reporter chads Truth Commission says 40,000 people were killed and 200,000 tortured when habre was in rule in the 1980s. United states and franls supported hissan habre even as he turned his country into a police state. Got training in the United States. He was overthrown in 1990 and fled the country. For 16 years victims of or the dhur and campaigners tried to bring him to court. While he lived quietly in senegal. His wife never suspected he would face justice. Translator we had an implivment eexplicitimplicit agreement. We feel betrayed. Hes now being charged for crimes against humanity in the extraordinary african chambers poop court specifically created by the African Union and senegal. Hundreds of witnesses are expected to testify including clement aboyfouta an african judged by africans away from the hagues International Criminal court. A possibility to set a precedent make universal justice accessible to all on this continent. I think what this trial shows more than anything else is that its possible for victims and their supporters, with tenacity, with perseverance, with imagination, to actually get a dictator to court. Reporter the trial will not erase the horrors but something has changed and perhaps in the process clement abayfouta will find some peace. President obama sitting down with the new president of nigeria tomorrow. The fight against boko haram expected to top the agenda and it could leave the white house with a difficult decision to make. The week ahead is next. Plus a terrible tragedy claiming the lives of an entire bridal party. Tonight the bride to be is fighting for her life. Welcome back to al jazeera america, im del walters. Heres another look at your headlines. Looking into a 2014 trip Mohammed Abdulazeez took to jordan. A tennessee representative will introduce a bill looking at weapons on military bases. 60 days to look at the terminates and decide whether or not to accept them, meanwhile secretary of defense Ashton Carter arrived in the middle east, hes there to convince saudi arabia and lebanon to trust the agreement. In greece, account holders will be able to stay up to 455 euros all at once and given access to their safety deposit boxes. Now its time for our week ahead segment. Muhammadu buhari is set to meet with president obama at the white house tomorrow, he arrived there today. The fight against boko haram is expected to top the agenda. The failure of his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan damaged ties between the two countries and trying to mend relations in this weeks meeting. President buhari promising to defeat boko haram. The fighting has been ongoing now for six years. Tonight we are going to take a social media fire storm that erupted after those school girls were kidnapped the hashtag bring back our girls went global now hashtag says the girls are still gone. Roxana saberi takes a