I was in my 20s when I came to fully appreciate the contradiction of my mom’s life: Had it not been for The Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, she very well might not have survived the Japanese prison camp in Indonesia.
FROM THE NEWSROOM: Obama's speech today is his latest attempt to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptics in Washington. Also, the chant "Death to America," and why it remains a fixture of life for many Iranians. Plus, the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil tells us about her extraordinary interview with Pakistani hangman, Sabir Massih, an executioner who learned his trade from his father, following in a long family tradition. And finally, only 40 people got to see the Master Musicians of Joujouka when they performed at a festival in the Riff Mountains of Morocco.