heard that political directors, technical assistance if you like, have requeened. in the last few moments we've been hearing very encouraging developments from the iranian foreign minister and also from the russian foreign minister. they're going as far to say that on wednesday, he hoped to redraft the terms of the final agreement. he's quoted saying that in broad principle, the main issue has been reached. so very significant developments in just the last few minutes. of course the talks breached the original deadline of midnight. it's now about 2:00 o'clock in the morning here. it does seem that we are close to a significant break through. >> now, any deal to curb iran's nuclear program could have an impact on u.s. policy in the middle east. here's more on that from the white house. >>reporter: it was a deadline until it wasn't and now the white house today saying that march 31st deadline that the united states and united states alone is -- this as the world community is on the edge of its seats looking for a deal or no deal that could have repercussions across the region. president obama made it clear last month that there would be no extensions of the talks beyond the march 31st deadline. >> the issues now are -- >> the situation is tikrit is a prime example of what we're worried about. iran is taking over the country. >>reporter: the u.s. is on the same side as iran in the fight against isil. but on the opposite side in syria. in yemen, the houthis are rivals to al quaeda in the arabian peninsula. but the u.s. is supporting the saudis in their strikes against the houthis. complicated alliances making the politics of a deal dicey. >> it's in the best interest of our partners in the region as well including saudi arabia. the united states as we're doing right now in yemen has taken steps to support saudi arabia's national security and to advance their interests in the region. >>reporter: another worry, a deal would also mean gradual lifting of sanctions against iran strengthening its economy, adding to its power. but analysts say there's no word around it. >> if it agrees to restrict its nuclear program but we don't agree to roll back sanctions relief then iran would have no incentive whatsoever to roll back its nuclear program. >>reporter: the closest u.s. regional ally israel fears president obama is letting iran get the upper hand in the region. >> there's no deal then the view of this group, similar to your own, is that acheting up sanctions may be the best direction to take in the wake of a deal that does not come together. >>reporter: congress returned from a two-week recess april 13th. many believe that's the real deadline. if there's no deal by then republicans joined by many democrats will move quickly to impose for sanctions on iran. the congress led by republicans but plenty of democrats on board are lying in wait. if there's a deal they'll have that bill requiring congress to give a thumbs up or down. the white house would call that a deal breaker as far as iran is concerned. let me just get your reaction to the news here that there could be a deal. >> well, of course i think it will be very significant. i have been arguing that there is going to be a deal. it is inevitable. for ten years now my concern has always been the longer we wait the higher the price for the united states. and i think we've paid a terrible price. when i first started to argue for this back in 2003, iran had 164 centrifuges in its nuclear program. today they have 20,000. so we know what our policies of coercion and military intervention have brought, really just self-damaging outcomes for the united states. this kind of agreement gives the united states the opportunity to fundamentally realign our relationship with the islamic republic of iran which is absolutely imperative for the united states in our own interests. >> so you're saying many members of congress, republican and some democrats think it's a bad idea as well and will do what they can to stop it. what can be done in your opinion to push this deal through from the united states' point of view? >> we have two precedents. when nixon and kissinger opened to china. they knew we needed a fundamentally different relationship with china. they did it. they exercised leadership. they did it. they announced it after the fact. that worked. that was hugely successful for the united states. then we have the other precedent of president carter in the late 1970s negotiating the treaty with the soviet union. that failed because president carter didn't lead and explain to the american public why it was so important for americans to have a different relationship with the soviet union and the rest is history. so president obama can lead and explain the significance of normalization with iran or let congress kill it on the vine. >> so you think that's a possibility, that congress could kill it? >> absolutely. i think if president obama continues to have what i call a hold your nose approach to iran where we're just trying to roll back their nuclear program, congress will kill it. he can't win on that basis. there's no -- as long as iran continues to be demonize in american politics and there's no understanding that there's a strategic need to deal with this critically important power like there was with china, then i think that the republicans will be able to beat this back on the basis that there is nothing that iran could do to really qualify it, to have even a single centrifuge. >> president obama we're now told was on a video conference tonight to work with these p5 countries to get a deal with iran. but why should the united states trust iran? going all the way back to the hostage situation many years ago, there's a feeling in the united states that you simply can't trust iran and israel says that clearly. >> that is certainly the narrative here in the united states. relations between states are not built on trust. ronald reagan famously said trust but verify. what we need with iran is something that built on international law like the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. and real political understanding. this isn't about trusting iran. it's about having a better relationship with iran for the united states to get out of this record of more than ten years of military intervention after military intervention. the opportunity that iran has afforded us to work with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty to have more monday -- monitoring and verification of their program is the only thing we can do to better understand their program. otherwise we can be where we were in 2002 on the eve of the invasion in iraq where we had no eyes on the ground and he had to trust the people in washington with agenda-driven plans to justify the u.s. invasion. that's irrational. that doesn't work for the united states. we need to have more of an objective agreement based on international law with real monitoring and verification. otherwise we're left to these agenda-driven agendas here that will get us into war after war after war. >> all right. hillary, thank you. these negotiations recall a similar effort two decades ago when the u.s. tried to convince north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. >>reporter: john you know north korea presented a much different set of problems to the united states back in the early 1990s but in some ways the choices were equally stark. either cut a deal with a regime the u.s. didn't trust or resort to military action and risk all-out war. and then as now, the prospect of war is a frighteningly real possibility. in the summer of 1994 the pentagon drew up top secret plans to send f-117 stealth fighters to invade north korea. ash carter then assistant secretary of defense for international security policy now the top official at the pentagon. carter has long argued military force might be the only way to stop a regime intent on acquiring nukes. whether north korea in 1994 or iran in 2015. >> the military option certainly will remain on the table. >>reporter: but then as now, an attack no matter how surgical risks retaliation, escalation and tens of thousands of casualties. so 20 years ago, the u.s. entered into a so-called framework agreement with north korea who agreed to freeze the program in return for fuel oil and a safer kind of nuclear reactor. >> ash and i worked together very hard to try to denuclearize north korea. i don't have to tell you we did not succeed in that objective. >> our policy was to stop north korea from acquiring a nuclear weapons program. it has done that and made weapons with ballistic missiles. >> the ambassador was the man who negotiated eyeball to eyeball with the north koreans. he argues william perry and ash carter were right when they said in a book they co-wrote in 1999 saying the -- >> it stopped a north korean nuclear weapons program for eight years. hundreds more weapons would be in north korea right now if that agreement had not been there. >>reporter: north korea cheated. u.s. intelligence detected the -- >> i'm not sure that there was any way to stop north korea from doing what it open did. >>reporter: the lesson for any future iran deal is distrust and verify. >> short term phrase for it is any time, any place inspections. that's important. no notice. anywhere we want to go. you can't take -- it's a military installation and take it off the list. you can't say you have to give us 30-day's notice. any place, any time. there are major differences between north korea and jamie thank you. >> at the core of many of these conflicts in the middle east lies an ancient religious divide, yet, members of the two main branches of islam, sunni and shias. of the 1.6 million muslims worldwide, about 85% identify as sunni and these are the countries with the shia majority that make up 15% of the world's muslim population today these countries are experiencing sectarian violence between sunni and shia including lebanon, iraq saudi arabia pack stand, syria. the senior fellow with the foundation for the defense of democracy joins us tonight from washington. david, welcome. is it too simple to break this down as oh many of these conflicts are simply an ancient sunni-shia conflict. >> that is too simple. the conflict is very real and it's an ancient divide but the intensity has fluctuated over time. the iraq war was something which certainly helped to kick up the tensions. if you go back in history just a bit to 1979, the iranian revolution and iran becoming a revolutionary shia power along with the syria conflict have helped to create the situation that we're in right now. >> and iran's nuclear program is also split along those lines as well. right? >> that's absolutely correct. sunni countries in the region have expressed great concern about the iran program and have threatened that if iran has nuclear capabilities they'll also feel the need to prolive rate in the middle east in order to keep the balance even. >> so is the united states playing both sides? >> i don't think so. at all. there's certainly a perception within the region that that's the case because the narrative goes the u.s. is fighting against the sunnis in iraq but it's also fighting against the shias in yemen. but i don't think the u.s. is seeing it through the sectarian divide. for one thing, in iraq it's not as though it's just shias fighting against the sunni power. instead you have isis who everybody is fighting against. obviously you have the u.s. bombing them. iran is on the ground along with the iranian-backed shia militias. and then you have a coalition of other countries carrying out air strikes including the gcc states. so it's sunnis shias, and the u.s. against isis. and then in yemen, the u.s. is on the ground fighting against the houthis -- rather providing support. i don't think the u.s. sees it through that lens -- the u.n. sees it through that lens but often u.s. actions are perceived through that lens including in iraq. >> after the united states lost so many lives, so many american soldiers maimed and injured, billions and billions of dollars lost to the iraq war, why is -- why does the united states continue to sort of stick its nose into this conflict between sunni and shia. >> a lot of this conflict isn't between them. we can review one action after the next separately. but in iraq in particular it's not the u.s. sticking its nose into a conflict between sunnis and shias. as i said most sunnis would find it deeply offensive for us to consider isis to be the representative of the sunni people and in particular when the u.s. first launched its intervention they were in the process of committing genocide against yazidis. yemen is much more of a question mark because you have a deeply complex conflict there where we're being placed on the same side of that conflict. some of whom we're going to be deeply uncomfortable with. but i think iraq is clear. yemen is less clear and i think it has to do with concerns about iranian expansion and some of the deeply-held views of the u.s. in terms of its allies in the gcc. >> it is extremely complex. thank you very much david, we appreciate it. coming up on this broadcast, a new admission by lufthansa about last week's crash in france this is designed to end bigotry against people. eople. from germany, news that andreas lubitz told the airline he suffered from severe depression. he deliberately crashed an airplane into the french alps last week killing all 150 people on board. >> they discovered correspondence between lubitz and the flight school where he trained which could shift the burden of liability more squarely on the airline. >> exactly one week ago today we received the sad news of our flight in the french alps. >> the ceo speaking out for the first time calling it without a doubt one of the biggest national tragedies the airline has ever faced. >> since then every conceivable effort has been made to recover the victims, provide aid and assistance to the families and determine the cause of this accident. >>reporter: as the investigation continues, new information from germanwings parent company lufthansa reveals the airline knew of the mental health hiss history of the pilot who intentionally crashed the plane taking the lives of everyone on board. lufthansa says he sent emails to the airline's flight school six years ago alerting officials of his condition. he submitted detailed medical records to the flight school. >> depression requires further inquiry. severe depression is a red flag of red flags. you have to be concern that the man in the -- certain that the man in the cockpit has the state of mind and continuing state of mind that nothing he does or feels will endanger the passengers. >>reporter: which is why aviation litigation specialist mark muller says there is now no way lufthansa can avoid light. >> they had ample evidence of the problems this pilot had in the past as early as 2009. and second, the absence of two people in the cockpit at all times is a second basis for liability in this case. there isn't any question in my mind that lufthansa will be liable for all of the damages, full damages to each and every person on that airplane. >> also new today, cellphone video taken on the plane that documents the final terrifying moments. officials apparently recovered a memory card from the crash debris and we're not going to show you the video but we can tell you according to reports from a french magazine and german paper, the passengers on that plane were very much aware of what was happening. you can hear the captain banging on the metal doors as he tried to get into the cockpit. people were screaming oh my god. it's unclear if the phone belonged to a passenger or a crew member. >> you can only imagine. thank you now we want to bring you up to date on the latest on the iran nuclear negotiations. there have been conflicting reports about progress in these talks which pushed beyond the deadline tonight into material morning. let's go to simon mcgregor wood in switzerland for the latest on that. >>reporter: a slightly confusing picture. i'll try and map out what we know. it is now half past 2:00 in the morning in switzerland. two and a half three hours beyond that original midnight deadline. we know the talks have broken up that took place behind me. then interestingly we heard two bits of information attributed firstly to the foreign minister for iran who is quoted as saying that during the talks, there had been significant progress and that he hoped later on wednesday, the parties would requeen to start drafting the final terms of an agreement. then we heard comments attributed to the russian foreign minister talking to russian journalists saying that as far as he was concerned, there had been agreement on all the main issues. now, that would be a very significant break through. i would have to urge some caution. we don't know for example, what the official u.s. position is on these comments. we haven't heard from the europeans, british, french or german foreign ministers who are also participants in those talks. but clearly taking the words at face value, there's been something of a break through here tonight. >> they have been careful about not releasing some information. is there some significance or strategy here by leaking some of this information before there's an official announcement? >>reporter: well it's everyone's guess. i i think there's everything in it for the iranians to spin this positively. they want a deal. i think the russians have had a history in the last 24 hours especially of talking positively. he broke away from these talks monday and came back tuesday. in moscow he said things are going well. he's got a track record of being positive on this. if there is this break through, what i think we'll look for in the coming hours is the political directors of the foreign ministers getting around the table around breakfast table to push the process forward and then it will be interesting to see whether the foreign ministers get back into the process. between now and then it will the be very interesting to hear what other chatter we get on this particularly from the states. there is talk of one u.s. official saying we're not sure that there's agreement on all the issues. one other point from a washington perspective, we understand president obama has been kept updated and did queen in the last few hours a national security meeting to get a fuller picture of the progress of these talks. positive news yes. but i think we need to wait for the dust to settle to see exactly how far we've got towards this frame work agreement. >> yeah. we'll get back to you, simon if there's more news before this newscast ends. thank you very much. up next, indiana's governor promises to change his states religious freedom law plus what life is like for notorious criminals like the unabomber and the shoe bomber. and the shoe bomber. wal-mart and other arkansas-based corporations are speaking out tonight against a new state law. arkansas's law makers passed the religious freedom restoration act today similar to the law sparking controversy in indiana. opponents say it will allow businesses to discrimination against gays and lesbians. indiana's governor says he wants changes on his desk by the end of the week. indiana now is ground zero in the debate over laws like this and their impact. here's more from indianapolis. jonathan. >>reporter: john the governor admitted today this act needs to be fixed so he says the state can move forward. so tonight law makers here in indiana are rushing to clarify this law. with business owners around indianapolis taking a stand -- >> no hate. in our state. >>reporter: -- and anger growing, indiana's governor offered a new message. >> we have a perception problem here because some people have a different view. we intend to correct that. >>reporter: after repeatedly defending the religious freedom restoration act, governor mike pence conceded the law should be changed this week. >> legislation that is added to the religious freedom restoration act in indiana that makes it clear that this law does not give businesses a right to deny services to anyone. >>reporter: he still defended the act overall leaving some very unsatisfied. >> it's not enough. you know i think that he needs to protect lgbt as a class of people. i think he's just trying to save face. opponents say indiana's law goes much further by protecting businesses and not just individuals. activists say it could allow stores to refuse to serve gay people >> this piece of legislation flies in the face of the kinds of values that people across the country strongly support. >>reporter: the governor hopes changing the law will calm the swelling anger. already businesses have threatened to pull out. conventions have been canceled and new york today joined connecticut and washington from official travel to indiana. >> it's been highly visible backlash from across different sectors. >>reporter: a hit worth delivering even though she owns a store in indianapolis she hopes the boy account stands for now. >> me worried about my bottom line is not as important as preventing people from being discriminated against. if it can help bring about change maybe it's what needed. >>reporter: how this law may change remains unclear tonight. many worry the language may not go far enough. we should learn more about that tomorrow. >> thank you. the controversy in indiana is having an impact on other states. north carolina and georgia have now put their proposals on hold. there have been rallies against the bill in atlanta. robert ray is there tonight. report. >>reporter: just two days left for the georgia assembly to vote on this controversial bill and as we've seen today, the opponents and crowds are getting loud and politicians and law makers are at it. opponents of georgia's religious freedom bill marchedout side the state capitol while law makers debated its future inside. like similar proposals across the country, it would block the state from infringing on a person's religious beliefs unless there's a compelling state interest. republican state senator josh mccoon wrote the bill and has been called a bigot by some critics. >> to take the free exercise of religion and give it the same constitutional scrutiny that free press, free association, and free speech claims already to have under georgia law. >>reporter: there's no bigotry in this? >> absolutely not. >>reporter: what do you say to being called a bigot. >> it's absolutely not true. this legislation is designed to end bigotry. it's about restraining state and local government from mistreating people of faith. [applause]. >>reporter: jeff graham runs a gay rights lobbying group. do you feel there's hate inside this bill? >> i feel that this bill could be used as a vehicle to discriminate against people. i'm not going to call into question the integrity or the intent of the bill's authors. >>reporter: both sides are well aware of the backlash being felt after indiana passed its version of a religious freedom bill. >> we need to be the other book end that says no to what happened in indiana. we need to be the end of that story. [applause]. >>reporter: so far, georgia's bill has not made it out of committee. no language added last week by another republican softened mccoon's original bill. so the senator's allies tabled it fearing that the changed language would gut what they say is the original intent of the bill to give people of all religions the freedom to worship anywhere any time. >> what about gays and lesbians? >> i mean this apply -- i mean there are people of faith i think from every walk of life so it covers everyone. it doesn't -- it does not authorize mistreatment of any person. you don't have to take my word for it. you can look at the 22-year history of the federal law. but what's the uproar in indiana right now? why are major corporations saying we're not going to do business in the state since this bill came into it? are you afraid of that here? >> well i think the reason we've seen a backlash is not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today and getting these kinds of answers. they see that bumper sticker, that ticker across the bottom of their screen that says this is an antigay bill or a license to discriminate bill. you know americans are fundamentally about fairness. they see that and they react to it. >>reporter: senator macccoon has until midnight thursday to get a vote on the georgia house floor and if he fails, he told us he'll try again next year. atlanta is a major hub for corporations around the world because of the low tax base over the last 20 or so years. we've heard from home depot. they made a comment last week saying that they will not allow any discrimination on any person or anything. they won't support this at all. last year coke and delta airlines were very vocal about that bill. we have not heard anything from them yet this year laying low. i probably think that they want to stay quiet. clearly a charged situation with a lot of momentum everywhere especially here in georgia. >> as you know in indianapolis there have been some that have canceled convention there is. atlanta is a big convention town. any concern about if this bill is passed there could be more backlash? >>reporter: absolutely spot on with that question. there will be backlash. in fact the georgia convention bureau has put out a resolution against this bill. they don't want it to happen. i mean if you look at the hospitality industry here in atlanta, it's a $13 billion per year. a lot of companies come here and won't be happy if this bill does pass. >> all right. robert, thank you. joinening us now is the deputy legal director at lamda legal and she's in our studio tonight. good to have you on the program. give me your reaction to just the last 24 hours with regard to this particular law. >> it's been an incredible up welling of affirmations that discrimination is not welcome in this country, not welcomed by individuals and it's also terrible for business. >> is it a big backlash though to what's happened all over the country regarding gay marriage? i mean especially in states like indianapolis or -- indiana or arkansas or georgia because in the view of some gay marriage has moved too quickly and too soon. >> when more families are protected, all that happens is people who love each other get to have safer, better lives and nobody else is harmed by that. >> i heard the governor say over and over again today that there are misinterpretations misperceptions. this is not perceived properly this law in indiana. what do you think? >> i think people see it for what it is. this is an eruption of venom against lgbt people. >> in all the states >> >> well the fact is that people see that discrimination is up at the supreme court and teen lawyers who were trying to defend it for states have now in so many instances said that they actually agree that they see that there is no harm when gay people are protected and only more families that get exactly what they deserve which is the protections under the constitution that we all should have. >> does it call for boycotts? do you think boycotts help? >> we haven't called for boycotts but many are joining in and actually the business people are speaking up saying that this is terrible for them as well that they want to serve people equally and there are now states, there are the ncaa and individuals who are making clear that this is a disaster. even the former attorney general of georgia whose name is on the most famously antigay case in supreme court history has said that this is a disaster it's an invitation to discriminate. it's clear what it is. doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell it. and it lets individuals walk around and decide on any day what law they will or won't obey based on a feeling about religion and that's not the way this country should operate. >> good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you out of the thousands of prisons in the united states one stands the most secure. it's known as the alcatraz of the rockies, the super-max in colorado about 90 miles south of denver denver. it's home to some of the most dangerous criminals in the united states. many of those incarcerated are infamous but not all. a recent lawsuit suggests the prison houses a growing number of mentally ill inmates and that many of them are being driven to escape by killing themselves. >>reporter: this is adx. it's said to be the most secure prison in the united states to house the most dangerous inmates. it's an fortress. cells are made of poured concrete. the doors, metal. prisoners spend nearly 23 hours a day in isolation. even their recreation time is spent in a steel cage. the prison is home to convicted murders like the unabomber. the master mind behind the 1993 world trade center bombing. and michael swango a physician convicted of four murders who's suspected of killing as many as 60 patients. the prison is meant to house the worst of the worst. but a recent class action lawsuit filed by the inmates says mentally ill prisoners are regularly assigned to the unit. the inmate claims the prison's indifference to their serious mental illnesses has resulted in horrible consequences. one of the plaintiffs is jason legget. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. john powers has no history of mental illness before he went to prison but the suit says he developed severe ptsd after witnessing the murders of three inmates. at adx, he mutilated himself and has repeatedly tried to commit suicide. >> a spokesman for the prison would not address this specific allegations of this lawsuit but stated that all inmates are treated in a professional manner by trained staff. the director of the d.c. prisoner's rights project is here to speak with us. 's good to see you. what's your reaction to what you heard the spokesman of the prison say? >> i'm not surprised. i do know that the vast majority of the staff there are incredibly professional and hardworking and want to do the right thing >> very little human contact. all contact with officers is through a slot in the door. and there's individual cells with a single pull up bar. >> i can hear people listening to this program say okay, prison is tough. this is a bad situation. it's not pleasant to be there. but they committed horrible crimes and they killed multiple people. why should they be treated well? >> well, first of all its important to understand that although there are people at the adf. there are many more people who are average criminals that most of us would never have heard of. they have committed crimes. nobody denies that. they are entitled under the united states constitution, and the united nations protocols to basic treatment for physical and mental illness. they can't be driven mad and any mental illnesses they have have to be addressed. >> so why do you say these violations have gone on for so long? >> i think its both inertia and lack of scrutiny. all the laws on the books don't prevent anything from happening if no one looks at what happened. it's been a long time since anybody had looked at what was going on at the adx. but it's not just the super max. it's the entire prison and jail system in our country which has become first-line responders for mental health issues. >> we'll continue to follow your lawsuit. debra, it's good to have you on the program. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> it is being called the nation's first student debt strike refuseing to pay back federal loans. they met with officials in washington accusing the school of fraud and saying their education is basically worthless. >> natasha graduated cum laude from everest college in california. part of the for-profit education giant. today the 26-year-old is back in her native missouri working part time at a grocery store for minimum wage. honest work but not the career everest promised her. >> they told us that we would have a job in the field that we studied within no more than six months. >> but she could not get a foot in the door or transfer her credits to another college. she has nothing to show for her everest degree. >> $28,012. >> except $28,000 in federal student loan debt. so horn and dozens of other students declared a debt strike, claiming that they defrauded them. they're refusing to pay back federal student loans they say the department of education should cancel. charges that under pin lawsuit brought against corinthians. they were calling to underwrite state and federal lawsuits but not enough to convince the department of education to shut down corinthian. last year the department of education moved to curtail access to federal aid fund to only have the for-profit announce it would have to declare bankruptcy. but the department did not let corinthian under. instead it opened 26 different campuses. >> they have been a partner in crime with corinthian. they have conducted a predatory credit scheme for two decades and they have supported it and funded it. >> the department of education declined our request for an interview to does their handling of corinthian. a spokesperson for the department gave us a statement saying quote: >> i think the department of education does not want to set a precedence of mass student loan cancellations. once these students get what they deserve in this case, other students who have been scammed and defrauded by their schools are going to want the same thing. >> which is why natasha honor is horn is standing her ground. >> standing together and creating a collective, i know we have something and we can make the department of education sweat. >> al jazeera, columbia, missouri. >> we asked corinthian to weigh in on the allegations leveled against them in the state and federal lawsuits including charges they misled students about job placement rates. a spokesman told us that: . >> a new international bank is causing concern at the white house. antonio mora with the story coming up on the next hour. >> we're talking about the aiib today was the last day for countries to sign up if interested and top american allies have done so over white house objections. it's expected to be ready by the end of the year pumping money into badly needed infrastructure projects. but they are worried that it's china's growing power. the imf will gladly cooperate. >> there is plenty of work to be done. infrastructure needs is not in short supply. >> also of concern to washington the aiib will detract from the trans-pacific partnership, the trade group with u.s. we'll look at whether it does really pose any threat to the u.s. economy and around the world. >> a thai businessman has been sentenced to 25 years in jail over facebook posts. the military said that the man insulted the king online. he's also a supporter of ousted president shinawatra. thailand's laws against criticizing the royal court is the world's harshest. it makes it a climb to defame, insult any heir to the throne. rarely seen photos chronicling life in america during the civil war. >> photography was in its infancy when the civil war began. many pictures have become iconic but some have never surfaced until now. >> slaves at a plantation near rockville, south carolina. the photograph is among hundreds of the civil war collected by robert stanford. an 87-year-old grandmother recently sold her trove. many are stereo scopic. two of them side by side giving the illusion of a 3d image. images like this, soldiers standing outside of the ruins of fort sumpter when the first shots were fired between the states. and here a southern artillery militia in charleston, north carolina. here bunting in springfield. by train the lincoln funeral pro session made its way across the country stopping in cities like philadelphia. here a haunting picture of the slain president's casket surrounded bay crowd on the street. in lower manhattan buildings are decorateed in solemn march to honor lincoln. the most extraordinary of the collection black worshipers at a church in charleston. this picture is dated january 31 1863, 30 days after lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and long before a broken nation was whole again. >> that is our program. thank you for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. i'll be back tomorrow night. the news continues with antonio mora. >> making progress in the nuclear talks with iran. >> the iranian foreign minister is saying that we have made great progress and going as far as to say that on wednesday they hoped to reconvene to start drafting the terms of a final agreement with time running out the deadline extended to reach agreement on iran's nuclear programme the crisis in yemen intensifies. >> translation: whenever we feel there's a need for a ground