we begin with the iran nuclear deal. getting the west in iran to agree is one thing and getting the white house and republicans to see eye to eye was another. but today a bit of political diplomacy from both sides of the aisle. libby casey is in washington with more, libby. reporter: john, the white house is far from thrilled with this legislation. but the real compromise took place between republicans and democrats on the senate foreign relations committee. they passed out a bill today let s dig in to the details it. requires the white house to submit any iran nuclear deal to congress by july 9th, including classified information or congress gets more time to review it. if the white house can stick to that deadline, congress has 30 days with just 12 days wiggle room to review. and this bill removes language that was in an earlier version that would have required president obama to certificate on a regular basis that iran isn t engaging in terrorism. democrats didn t
president obama indicates that he ll sign it. teachers behind bars. it s like the sickest thing that happened. an atlanta judge sentences nine out of 10 former educators over a cheating scandal. three. two. one. lift off success and failure for the latest spacex mission to the international space station. gening i m antonio mora this is al jazeera. the u.s. took a big step today on the road to resuming diplomatic ties with cuba. president obama informed congress he ll take u.s. off the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism. mike viqueira has more from the white house. the move was expected and will have real world consequences. cuba and america open for business with each other. it could have come saturday. many expected it when president obama was in panama for the summit of the americas and he received a recommendation that cuba be delisted from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, where it resided since 1982. it s part of president obama s announcement t
baltimore police say that they have finished their investigation into freddie gray s death. their findings are now in the hands of the city s top prosecutor. details of the report have not been released but police have said that the investigation has uncovered new details about gray s being in a police van earlier this month. john terry joins us, and first john what s the situation like on the streets behind you? well, good evening to you tony, from baltimore. every evening at the moment, there s a large march which ends up somewhere in the city. and tonight, it was here at war memorial plaza outside of city hall. site of last saturday s big protest and one that s coming up this saturday as well. but this evening, there has been some very very heavy rain. poured down, and the effect of that was to thin out the crowd. so right now, there are far fewer people here than marched into this plaza a couple of hours ago. we have been listening in the past few minutes to a police br
this is aljazeera america. good morning. live from new york city, i m randall pinkston. baltimore is waking up a of the a third mostly peaceful night under curfew, the focus on the prosecutor investigating the death of 25-year-old freddie gray. there are no reports today about what may have been behind the injuries gray suffered while in police custody. john tarret is live in baltimore. there are reports now several saying that gray may have been heard inside the police transport van something known as a rough ride? yeah, that s right randall. good morning from baltimore. local a.b.c. affiliate reporting this morning that it has seen part of the medical examiner s report which suggests freddie gray may not have died from injuries he picked up during the arrest protest but from striking his head or back of his neck on a bolt in the police wagon. now of course no one is speaking about this openly. we re just going to have to wait and see for the medical examiner to actually p
then, we go to indiana. while the state, has been in the spotlight this week over its new anti-gay, so-called religious freedom law another controversy is brewing. on monday, purvi patel became the first person in us history sentenced to prison for fetiticide. she says she had a miscarriage the state accused her of ending her own pregnancy. she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. we said since going to be this is going to be news to arrest women. it will do more than they claim. they said that is just scare tactics. amy: and we will look at why the united arab emirates barred nyu professor andrew ross from entering the country where the school has a satellite campus after he published research about migrant workers and labor abuse in the gulf state. now he has learned a private investigator was also hired to target him and a new york times reporter. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. negot