this is it really was life from berlin the end of an era the u.s. and russia abandon a key cold war treaty under clear weapons nato sounds a note of caution. we will not meet your book threshold. we don't belong to the new officers each side points the finger at the other for

ending the medium range missile agreement but both calls for restraint also coming up on the show free at last to travel a new decree allow saudi women to travel abroad without the consent of the husband or male relative the move is a game changer that takes effect at the end of the month. thank you so much for joining us everyone the west does not want a new global arms race so says nato secretary general young stoltenberg his appeal comes as nuclear weapons treaty dating from a cold war era collapses the ending of the intermediate range nuclear forces agreement or i.n.f. does away with the limits on the arsenals of both the u.s. and russia sober blames russia for the u.s.

we're drawing from the missile accord saying moscow failed to comply after developed a new cruise missile. it was a tweak that announced the end of over 30 years of mutual nuclear restraint u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o squarely put the blame on russia when he declared the treaty ends today president trump had withdrawn from the agreement 6 months ago after russia deployed a new missile system that contravenes the ins terms according to washington a nato. put russia is adamant that the us is responsible for the treaties unraveling. which we have discussed the subject in detail many times from the very beginning we were saying that this is exclusively a u.s. initiative a medical practice 1st to shatter the sick raymond and then terminate participation and at. times the question when this week i'm going to moscow has proposed

a moratorium on deploying nuclear capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a nuclear buildup would bring fighting we will not mirror what russia does we don't want a new arms race. and we have no intention to deploy the new land based nuclear missiles in europe. nato continues to aspire for a construct a relationship with russia when russia was actions make that possible. pompei used to eat at the end of a historic agreement struck between the u.s. and the soviet union presidents mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the treaty in 1987 a change of course have to decades of cold war new pay attention. the route of detention was this the soviet as s. 20 missile a nuclear warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. the u.s.

deployed its own mid-range missiles in europe leading to protests across the west. the i.n.f. treaty resulted from widespread popular demand for deescalation when the cold war ended so did the fear of nuclear mageddon but with the end of the i.n.f. the specter of nuclear confrontation looms again. let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world holocaust survivors gathered at the birkenau death camps to honor tens of thousands of ethnic sinti and roma people killed in a massacre there 75 years ago us civil rights activists jesse jackson who attended the ceremony called the nazi genocide of how some 1000000 since he and roma the forgotten holocaust. german customs officials have seized a 1000000000 euros worth of cocaine found in a shipping container in the port city of hamburg the drug shipment weighed more

than 4 tons and is the largest ever confiscated in germany. a trade dispute between japan and south korea has escalated with both countries dropping each other's status as prefer trading partners japan said his decision was based on national security concerns but south korea slammed it as a declaration of economic war and threatened to end an intelligence sharing pact ordered. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province. witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled yemeni security forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived backed by the united arab emirates and we stay in that region because saudi arabia has announced new travel rules that allow women to travel abroad without

approval from a male guardian women over the age of 21 will be able to apply for a passport from the end of this month although reforms are a major shift away from the country's restrictive guardianship system as things stand saudi arabia considers women to be on the same level as minors and gives men almost complete control over their lives while there have been several recent high profile attempts by saudi women to escape their guardians. well i'm now here joined by our very own a bit of humor to talk about this latest development before you tell us more about the lifting of travel restrictions against women and women sorry help frame this discussion the guardian ship system what is life like for women under that particular system well they have essentially no. agency under the system so. there were many steps in the past years to ease the system but this would put

restrictions on whether or not they could take a job where they would study. if they could study this also put restrictions on them getting medical care if a woman for example is detained or put in a correctional facilities she's unable to leave these correctional facilities until a male guardian comes and basically takes her out and the structures through the woman's entire life even when she's up to her sixty's the guardianship is passed on from father to husband and then to son so essentially the strips the guardianship system effectively strips women of legal agency in the eyes of the state ok now the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has called this latest move the lifting of the travel restrictions on women as history in the making is that it's a big moment and one shouldn't under play the significance of this again up until yesterday women could not even take a apply for a passport however it's important to remember that this is coming by royal decree

these are very top down decisions coming in there isn't something like a like a like a parliament that then discusses these laws and then votes on them so it remains to be seen if these top down decisions then what would happen once they start being implemented on the ground and whether society is really ready for them and how the more stringent segments of saudi society will react to them we have one tweet here that we found which was a reaction to the decision. this is coming from a male a man who said i'm afraid of this decision for a woman over the age of 20 want to travel without family members or her husband when our religion says a woman should be traveling with a male guardian so it remains to be seen how this plays out once it actually comes into effect that's the whole thing we don't know in terms of bottom up whether there will be widespread support for this but for now it will be the law of the land starting september or end of this month remains to be seen as to when it will

come to effect how will society reforming there have been a lot of these decisions i mean remember we had in you know last year the ban off of women driving this was the last country in the world that actually banned women from driving it was lifted last year also with a will decree but there still remains there are a lot of work has to be done on the one hand there's the social getting society to to catch up but then also we have all of these saudi women activists like jane that has i'm going to seriously think about her because she is behind bars but she and i think a couple of other women activists have basically paid with their lives i mean they're still alive but they're behind bars to get these reforms in their country exactly jane is sort of a high profile case she was one of the woman who defied the driving ban when it wasn't allowed for men to drive back in saudi arabia and seen as a group of other women who basically sacrificed for these reforms to actually take place but once you know these reforms are starting to take place she's been in prison there have been reports of her being subjected to gruesome kinds of torture

which begs the question why aren't these women the women that have fought for these for these reforms out on the streets celebrating basically the gains of their struggle what why is saudi arabia still holding these women ok well keep us abreast on not that as always thank you for a novice and. and to the u.k. now in fears that a dam in northwest england is about to collapse or thousands of people have been evacuated from the town as attempts are made to reinforce the dam wall which has been torn by heavy rain. workers are doing everything possible to prevent this dam from besting since dawn a military helicopter has been dropping sacks of gravel water has torn open the concrete struction at the same time firefighters are trying to pump out water the reservoir contains about 1200000 tons of water and residents of northern england's peak district fear the area will be flooded the environment agency is here to

severe flood warning because we don't know the state of the dom and if there was a catastrophic failure of the volume of water running through a turn like willie bridge would have a devastating impact days of heavy rainfall caused water levels to rise and seriously eroded the dam which lies south east of manchester. more than a 1000 residents of whaley bridge with temporarily evacuated from their homes many spend the night in emergency shelters and no one knows if and when they'll be allowed to return hine risk becoming really are so opposite of dumb. and people get what i think people are horrified about what's happening it's also a shock you know because of when the data says people's lives why they led authorities say the water level has already fallen by to meet his but it will take time to stabilize the dam the situation is still dangerous they say which is why the area has largely been cordoned off. now to football in brazil dortmund to take on arch rivals right in munich in saturday's german super cup the curtain raiser to

the new season and that runs hope to 1st beat there for was our over their weekend and then finally wrestle the want to play the title back off them in may well that runs were founded back in 1000 own 9 and church in the city linked to that day continues to play a very special role the trinity church in dortmund it was in this holy place the founders of percy dortmund 1st met tradition dictates that every new dorp in signing visits the church explains cost and how the community manager at trinity church he's thrilled with this season's new arrivals. brand formals i'm hugely excited it will be seen them played signally do know part is season 5. but the new faces will still need to visit the church yulian brant a rising star in german football match totals the former dalton kept in

a world cup winner and torgan has the highly rated playmaker poached from rivals blood back. drop in some a spending spree has been i catching to say the least and the objective this season is clear the champions or bust. after just falling short last season the squad has seen some big improvements it's great to see but it has to pay off. of us was all. for i'm going to say it silly or not so we're definitely going to do it this time but i think it will definitely be german champions come the end of the season with a big winning margin over buying the rest of the competition. then it's plain to see the belief is back in dortmund a look at the city where football is so much more than a sport. this is even a song about it for many people here in brissie adornment is a religion. if enough people believe it maybe it will come true

a nice title could well be on its way to dortmund. and with that endorsements what can go wrong are right a reminder of the top stories that we're tracking for you this hour. the u.s. and russia have blamed each other for ending a landmark nuclear missile treaty dating from the cold war well nato secretary general is against stillbirth has insisted the west doesn't want a new arms race plus a saudi arabia has announced new laws that mean women will be able to travel abroad without the consent of their husband or male relative any woman over the age of 21 will be able to apply for passports by the end of this month. you're watching the w. news coming up next in business africa. zimbabwe is going through its most serious economic crisis in a decade inflation is soaring and shortages of fuel grain and water are on the rise but a new budget has done little to lift hopes. that on

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