has met its maker. after a fresh round of un sanctions against north korea south korea is now testing the long range ballistic missiles we'll have the latest from seoul. then the united states senate rejects a bipartisan bill trying to end u.s. involvement in afghanistan and iraq. plus a hurricane or mad claims more lives find out how on was after a fax caused the deaths of six nursing home residents today.

it's wednesday september thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i mean this week and you're watching r.t. america our top story this hour is the ongoing tensions between the u.s. and north korea president donald trump describes the resolution of the united nations security council sanctions against north korea as quote not a big deal however he did say the unanimous vote itself spoke volumes all this comes as the south korean government started testing that long range ballistic missiles artes on your part in pill as in seoul south korea where tensions between the penciler countries are expected to rise. as officials here meet to discuss how to implement the unprecedented sanctions passed by the un security council this week targeting north korea and the foreign ministry underscores its commitment to apply economic and diplomatic pressure in order to weaken pyongyang today in provocative military activity south korean government launched a long range ballistic missile reportedly with

a capability of three hundred ten miles meaning if launched from anywhere near seoul it has the capacity to hit the entirety of the northern half of the peninsula it reportedly was launched from an f. fifteen fighter jet and dropped off the western coast successfully hitting a target after going through obstacles at low altitude this comes after seoul and was. and to remove the weight limit on warheads for south korean ballistic missiles meaning tensions on the peninsula are certainly slated to rise now this is just one of the more overt acts south korea takes in order to demonstrate its strength against its neighbor in the north however it's not the only thing it's not the only trick i should say seoul has its leave in

fact today i spoke with the former deputy head of the south korean cia to discuss some of the other strategies seoul and washington employ to target the government in pyongyang. do you believe the obama administration's in durance policy which focused on putting pressure directly on the government in pyongyang was an effective one you know obama. characterized it in terms of strategic patience. with. india could. the north korea will gradually be weakened to its own extinction in due course of time provided. be kept from being resupplied. however. it is sort of

a race against time and. we have come to conclude that this table. initiative in terms of the t.g. patience was not working i'm personally very much. aware of what had transpired in poland during the reagan administration era and the reagan mobilizing the reagan crusade. in collaboration with the pope. and he he made a lot of investment in bringing some freedom into poland which resulted in the overthrow of the communist regime in one thousand nine hundred one or two which led to the.

establishment of bowen's house democratic government which. lose the before of the dominus of communists communism in europe it sounds like what you're describing is a situation in which the united states would encourage some sort of color revolution in order to reunify under the south under a more capitalist and pro western system. that is still hoped for by by the book of the south korean population i was honestly surprised by how honest and open mr lee was in our discussion but that's just one of the very many interesting things he had to say in an interview with me which will be featured at length in a special report i'll put together upon my return to washington in seoul on your part until r.t. . president trump has said the latest sanctions. are only

a small step in the right direction today u.s. secretary of defense james mattis visited my not air force base in north dakota known as ground zero of american nuclear firepower it's home to more than one hundred land based nuclear missiles and planes that can carry nuclear bombs well to dig deeper into the north korea missile crisis we spoke with peter cosmic a professor at the american university there is our correspondent ashley banks with that part of the story the president said the latest u.n. sanctions on north korea were just a small step towards handling the country's nuclear program which includes setting a cap on crude and refine oil exports to north korea banning all north korea textile exports and for hitting nations from authorizing new work permits to north korean citizens around the globe trump said i don't know if it has any end packed but certainly it was nice to get a fifteen to nothing vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what alternately will have to happen north korea's ambassador to the u.n.

responded saying quote the forthcoming measures will make the u.s. suffered the greatest painted ever experienced and its history we spoke with peter cosmic professor of history and director of nuclear studies institute at the american university he told us why he believes north korea feels it needs a missile program the reason why they need a nuclear program in their eyes is that this is the deterrence this is what stops the united states from invading and overthrowing them. and that's why they're continued to do their missile tests and their bomb tests so kim is holding on to that capability as a way to keep himself from being. killed and the regime toppled by the americans and the south koreans amid the tensions between north korea and the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis begins his tour of nuclear facilities here in the u.s. his first stop will be and north dakota he will visit the my not air base which is the only air base. whose two legs of the nuclear triad what your strategic bombers

an intercontinental ballistic missiles and short the space is equipped to respond to any nuclear threat posed by north korea he plans to tour a missile alert facility at the base as well this facility is used to control intercontinental ballistic missiles and serves as a weapon storage area where airmen and maintain u.s. intercontinental ballistic missile warheads and on thursday madis will travel to omaha nebraska where he will meet with the u.s. strategic command leadership and discuss strategic deterrence options that will prepare the u.s. to handle any nuclear attack from north korea and on friday the secretary's trip will end in mexico that is hoping to reaffirm that u.s. is commitment to the bilateral defense relationship with mexico and the north america community because nick says experts warn we're living in the most dangerous time for nuclear war almost all the experts believe that this is the closest we've come to nuclear war since the cuban missile crisis in one nine hundred sixty two.

we are really facing a very dangerous situation that has to be defused but instead of being defused you've got these threats going back and forth from both sides so you've got from threatening fire and fury like the world has never seen north korea north korea making threats that we're going to take out american cities we're going to take out the american bases in guam you know this is a dangerous situation because these kind of situations with cruise ship when can we learn through the cuban missile crisis is one of crisis starts you can't control it however the question that remains is what will ultimately put a stop to north korea's nuclear program because it says china's freeze for freeze program needs to be emblematic of the possibly stop north korea from watching any more missile a military solution is is not real the possible in this case but what we can do is what the chinese and the russians are calling a freeze for freeze proposal and with that with intel would be north korea freezing

its nuclear program freezing its missile program no more tests in return for which we would have finally settled the korean war an addition to that he said of russia and china one thing u.s. and south korea to stop these war games they are becoming bigger and the right wing and are not helping to lessen the tensions and north korea and washington actually banks are teed and we sure to check out the full interview with peter coe's nick on r t america page well the u.s. senate has voted against in amendments which could have ended the wars in iraq and afghanistan it would mop and has the story that year the u.s. congress passes the national defense authorization act which supplies funding and authorization to the u.s. military for the following year or now in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks the national affairs officer is a she began to start having a section of it added to it was called the authorization. for the use of military

force this essentially allowed the united states to carry out military force in the fight against terrorism now u.s. senator rand paul from kentucky who is a noted opponent and critic of intervention by the u.s. military around the world he's been described as an isolationist libertarian the paleo conservative he put forward an amendment to the national defense authorization act that would remove this section would move the authorization of military force which has been present for the last sixteen years as part of the m.t.a. he would have removed it and essentially his removal would have required the u.s. to start bogging down and restricting its foreign involvement around the world it would have restricted the war on terror and essentially not allowed the united states of the commander in chief the president to continue authorizing and carrying out these military interventions now not surprisingly it was voted down even though

there was quite a bit of anticipation in the lead up to the vote as the votes in the u.s. senate went down it was sixty one against thirty six in favor now rand paul has said that he intends to make a bigger deal out of this there's talk of potentially a filibuster he's tweeted out a great deal of frustration saying where is the antiwar left demanding that the war's end where are the constitutional conservatives demanding the right of congress to reclaim the war powers sixteen years this national defense authorization act has included the authorization for the use of military force and each year it has been passed and now we're seeing rand paul demanding that it be removed but he has been voted down and it looks like the national defense authorization act will proceed to go to the house of representatives without this amendment proposed by rand paul. coming up on our t.v. aftermath. six nursing home residents they have the latest updates coming up next.

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i believe you. were. in the recent days following the hurricane has not only left devastation across sunshine state but also in a nursing home in hollywood florida reports say at least six nursing home residents have died from losing the air conditioning caused by a prolonged power outage at the rehabilitation center at hollywood hills police are looking into this as a criminal investigation as a facility has had safety violations in the past. but this time we have all the patients in critical care right now the building has been sealed off that it's good conducting a criminal investigation they saw it and they we believe that this may be related to the loss of power in the storm or can god be a criminal investigation not ruling anything out. well so far one hundred fifteen

people have been evacuated from the building and the other eighteen from a nearby facility the florida health care sociate and says it will begin checking the other one hundred fifteen or at the nursing facilities out in the seven hundred about states that have also experienced power failures. and the american red cross is launching the first drone disaster relief program in the united states a pilot program is slated to overlook houston story as soon as this week to assess the damage caused by hurricane harvey now according to the red cross the drones will be used to evaluate billions of dollars of damage for insurance assessments they will be connected to a constant source of power as well as a thirty x. zoom camera allowing them to conduct an interrupted surveillance for days or even weeks at a time when the pilot program is being funded by u.p.s. which owns a stake in the same drone company being used for the relief initiative. and in the

wake of hurricane arma nasa released new satellite images detailing ecological devastation inflicted by the deadly storm photographs of the caribbean islands shows previously lush education replaced by a muddy brown landscape hurricane earl passed through the northeast caribbean islands with maximum sustained winds of one hundred ninety five miles per hour killing at least thirty seven people all from houston texas to florida and the caribbean hurricane victims are picking up the pieces of what's left of their homes many are wondering exactly how much it will all cost and with past events like hurricane andrew big national insurance carriers like state farm and allstate cut back on writing homeowners insurance policies and florida flooding catastrophic and for more on the role of insurance companies in the hurricane cleanup we turn to you to meet finance professor at four international university's international

hurricane or search center thank you so much for joining us today. alone and so we saw some price gouging when it came to airline flights before army hit is this now happening within insurance companies. not necessarily i think the risk is fairly high in the insurance companies have priced it in such a with that to basically a con for the risk and also the terms very heavily regulated in some sense to float off its of insurance regulations as the authority to cap rate increases and they do so and can you talk about some of the fees that people are incurring there seems to be a lot of confusion among lud and hurricane insurance so do you think consumers who were a little buzzy on their rights are getting taken advantage of well we. the regular insurance does not cover flood and unfortunately only about eighteen

percent of homeowners in florida have flood insurance so we're going to have essentially a lot of litigation lawsuits et cetera because homeowners that have regular insurance will probably claim that the damage was done due to wind or rain fall or settle in the insurance companies would argue that it was flood and that the program flood insurance program should pay for it so that conflict has happened in the past and that may happen in the future. clearly we have a problem in terms of participation rate for flood insurance and so until our my came along andrew was ranked as far as most destructive storm twenty seven billion dollars in damage which would now equate to forty seven and back then twenty two insurers failed so that would leave in a whopping one million policyholders without coverage so i know we're still in the early stages here any idea of how erma compares. well we dodged

a big bullet basically if the storm had gone through the east coast we did some simulation the losses would have exceeded the hundred billion dollars we're talking about introduces a lot given that it went to the west because less populated area less valuable property. yes to me it's anywhere from twenty to fifty billion dollars the insurance industry can take care of that i believe they have a capacity of in excess of sixty billion dollars. with all the reinsurance that they have in place also one should consider the high deductibles that homeowners pay in florida. many small claims. for two thousand three thousand dollars if you have your fence down or simply down a minor damage probably will not be paid by the insurance companies because of the high deductible so if you have a category one hundred. for instance. or winds that are category one as much as

fifty percent to seventy percent or the burden would be on the homeowner's. insurance co yeah i see and so now you were quoted as saying our man could be a hurricane that could possibly bust the insurance company do you think it will at this point. i don't think so it would have if the storm had gone through these coursed fortunately for the insurance company and for florida in some sense not so much for the west because it went through. the west coast and it weakened so we got very lucky and when will people start having to make payments and are there any circumstances like obviously missing work that one labels some people have put off payments for some time. the if you're referring to payments from the insurance companies that will come soon the adjusters will come in. evaluate the as soon as they are able to do so they have access to the homes and so on and they

will. from the expect was here during andrew and my experience in andrew was that they came in they looked at the. damage and then they wrote a check right away the problem would be that with the reconstruction because if many were in some areas where you have a lot of properties that are damage it would be hard to find a construction company or or a builders or or to do the repairs and that would drag on i think and quickly we're almost out of time but is there something that we can learn here for future storms . well certainly a couple of things one is even though the building code has really really improved dramatically since we can andrew and we have some of the strongest building codes in the houses that are being built or are fairly strong but when it comes to category five it really you know all bets are off and we need to really grasp tickly rethink our construction designs and so on we have a timber roofs we have wooden roofs in most of the residential houses that's not

good for american prometheus we need to think about concrete roofs great thank you so much for your time so had me a finance professor app or international university's international hurricane research center thank you. thank you well one person is dead and three reportedly injured after a shooter opened fire at a high school in washington state today authorities say three miners are being treated for serious injuries at the sacred heart medical center however they are listed in stable condition the incident prompted a spokane public schools to initiate an hour long lockdown on all of its campuses according to police the suspected shooter has been taken into custody. and that is it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website our forward slash america and you can follow me on twitter at natasha's tweets and.

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now and air it in the first place because they spent a lot of time planning on where they're going to spend their money in a very strategic way they didn't just make this show on reagan for history's sake and after watching it the only reason i can come up with for them is that they wanted to make reagan look like a horrible president since a lot of people are comparing trump to reagan right now a guy who came from the entertainment business and took over the white house the fact that they even called it the reagan show points to that itself since people have started to call what's going on now the trump show and the entire documentary is edited to make reagan look pretty stupid it even starts out with a clip saying there have been times in this office where i wondered how you could do the job if you hadn't been an actor in other words the presidency was a farce then just like it's a farce now that's the obvious narrative they were trying to create they showed tons of clips that make reagan look really awkward which is now how i remember looking back then in the eighty's that all so c.n.n. the editing just reeks and an attempt to make reagan look stupid as

a way to make trump look stupid now since there's all these comparisons but the clip they included that really brought that comparison home was the one about fake news the clips of reagan and. talking in one thousand nine hundred five they're talking about russia of course because the cold war all the rage back then too and in the clip reagan actually says about the washington post that there are pro gorbachev and that they're not on our side in other words they found a clip where the president is attacking the media just like trump is attacking the media and now the parallel is too obvious to be a coincidence and proves that the reagan show was nothing but yet another way for c.n.n. to attack the current president and to once again make this show all about their favorite topic which is themselves.

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