coming up on our team even more sanctions donald trump signs an executive order placing new economic sanctions on north korea. and the president of afghanistan praises the u.s. decision to send more troops to the country as the two leaders meet at the u.n. general assembly. then war to repot devastated after hurricane maria bowls and leaving homes damaged and the entire island without power. it's the day september twenty first four pm in washington d.c.

actually banks and you're watching our team america we begin this hour with a more sanctions against north korea donald trump has signed an executive order that places new economic sanctions on north korea over the country's nuclear program this comes just days after a truck promised to quote totally destroy north korea as he addressed the u.n. general assembly artie's came up in house the story they are announcing a new executive order just signed. that significantly expand our authorities. to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea well here is the big announcement that we were anticipating from donald trump regarding new sanctions on north korea now from what we understand these sanctions will target individuals who have transactions with north korea as well as any financial institutions that facilitate these

transactions what we will do is identify new industries including fishing information technology and manufacturing that the treasury department can target with strong sanctions now donald trump has specifically talked about how the chinese central bank will be enforcing and preventing the entire chinese banking system from having any transactions with north korea since the beginning of this crisis there has been a proposal from both russia and china for deescalation from both sides china and russia have united and called for south korea to end its provocative military exercises and to and the bad missile system which which is considered provocative in a strike enabling in exchange for north korea ending its nuclear proliferation and ending its provocative missile tests regardless of this proposal from russia and china the crisis has certainly escalated and the u.s.

treasury will add more think sions against individuals company and banks involved in trade with the country trump said quote foreign banks will pay for a clear choice do business with the united states or facilitate trade with a lawless regime and north korea that is goal to completely de nuclearized north korea adding the nation led by kim jong un is a grave threat to peace and security in our world while trump is looking to crack down on north korea's nuclear program the united nations is looking to completely eliminate. nuclear weapons on wednesday more than fifty u.n. member states signed an agreement that would ban the use and development testing or storing of nuclear weapons under any circumstances joining me now to discuss this further is gotten are international nuclear specialists for beyond nuclear thank you so much for joining us today will end up now let's start with the treaty and why this treaty it's apparently not been supported by the world needs your nuclear

powers and criticize as largely symbolic and effective so why do you think this treaty is important well there was never the expectation that the nuclear weapons states would sign it or endorse it but it was a really important step forward it's never happened before so it's unprecedented steps that so many countries in the world of got together and made the use and ownership of nuclear weapons illegal it's by no means perfect but it gives a framework for really reinforcing the idea that these weapons are inhumane they should never be used and that we must abolish and stigmatize them so it's a starting point for sure so what makes this treaty one of its kind it's never happened before that you know we've had chemical weapons bans we've had land mine bans and so forth we've never been nuclear weapons the biggest weapon of all the one positive thing i think in addition to the stigma it creates is that even countries who have not signed bans the u.s. never signed the law but it is getting rid of landmines so it can have

a knock on effect that might be a tougher challenge with nuclear weapons because they're kind of in the in a category all of their own but i think it's a way to cause started and hopefully with the stigma and the illegality more and more countries will start to see that this is an era that we have to get out of you know one day you just mentioned that nuclear weapons are in a category of their own can you elaborate on why that is the devastation of a nuclear weapon is so profound and it's not just the people that you use it on at the time it affects future generations so it's really a crime against them. ety of the most profound nature you know we're still seeing even from the use of nuclear weapons in atomic bomb tests places like the marshall islands where the u.s. dropped nuclear weapons in seventy politicians can kazakhstan where the u.s.s.r. dropped them tested them you know we're seeing birth defects even today from people still living there so this is a forever. it's a commitment to change life on earth forever and in fact of course if it's used to scale eliminate life on earth so it's a completely different category i see that the red cross is actually supporting

this treaty do you know why that is absolutely on the red cross before going to his asian and they recognize fully that if a nuclear weapon was used they could not go in and provide relief so they are ardently in favor of the nuclear weapons ban now i don't trust time at the united nations general assembly he's made plenty of comments towards north korea and kim jong un specifically saying that he is a rocket man and then saying that quote he will totally destroy north korea trump saying that if it comes necessary our troops comet's making matters worse in your opinion well obviously i mean the both that those sorts of remarks the those kinds of military threats and then today the sanctions threats you know when you look at the history of sanctions they've been largely ineffective you know on another subject of nuclear with a nuclear connection iran was under similar sanctions for years but still develop the capacity to get close to a nuclear weapon until the iran deal was put in place which trump is also trying to

dismantle so these are both tactics that will lead us nowhere will further isolate and entrench north korea and the only answer in the design community especially is that we must sit down at the table we must use diplomacy we must resolve this peacefully because these are the tactics are going to further isolate a country that has now the capacity to use nuclear weapons but how do you think countries can go about doing that sitting down and having these peaceful talks right now obviously everyone's investing more so and we think how would you advise countries to go. about there well it's very difficult because the country we're really talking about is the united states and with the current regime in the united states you know there's a sort of. tendency to go after the sort of bellicose rhetoric you know and rather than accept that we actually should recognize that north korea does exist and we need to sit down with them as human beings and work this out so i think the opening the diplomatic door will be difficult but it has been open before by ironically north korea in both twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen saying you know they would be

willing to stop their nuclear testing if the u.s. would be willing to stop its military operations on the korean peninsula so it's sort of a standoff right now but there have been opportunities before the u.s. has to be willing to reopen the door and under this current government it's that's going to be very difficult to achieve i think and like you just said you're mentioning how the same passions have been the end affective and obviously in the coming weeks months we could see north korea launch another ballistic missile but when it comes to these leaders sanctions that the u.s. will be imposing on north korea do you think will make any difference at all well as i said i mean i'm not an economist so sanctions are not my expertise but when you look at the studies that have been done on the effect of sanctions over the years in many different places by and large with one or two you know minor exceptions they haven't been effective and even places where you could argue like oh you know refusing to south african apples when we were trying to sanction south africa for its part i had regime but in the end there were many other factors that

contributed to the change of government not just sanctions so just throwing sanctions and rhetoric and insults at north korea i think will further entrench and isolate them and that's really not what we want thank you so much for your and say linda greatly appreciated that was linda got near international nuclear specialist at nuclear thank you so much. and now to new york where our coverage of the united nations general assembly continues that the president trumpets are wrapping up its final meetings at the u.n. the security council passed one of the. very important resolution artie's trinity chavez has the details today as president final day at the u.n. and all eyes have been on him all day as he participates in the remaining meetings on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly today during a bilateral meeting with afghan president musharraf's ghani he said that joint afghan and u.s. forces were making headway against their opposition quote hitting them hard and hitting them effectively military is as you know. over there right now and doing

really an incredible job or of leadership in fighting we're leading a lot of wonderful afghan troops who are fighting very hard ghani also praised trunks decision to strengthen the u.s. forces by standing up to thirty nine hundred more troops on top of the roughly eighty four hundred americans currently there i want to thank you on behalf of the people of funston the government the funds for making a decision that is the story. you asked very fundamental questions you made this decision on the basis of courage and determination we salute you and another meeting with ukrainian president petro poroshenko he said ukraine is coming along pretty well and expressed the two countries are working together on both security and economic matters we spent some time recently in the white house and i know you've made good progress since then a lot of progress actually and i would say it's the easiest place to live but

you're making it better and better on a daily basis meanwhile the president of yemen told the united nations today that iran into quote destabilize the region and that his government hopes for peace with the shiite who the rebels but emphasize the problem in yemen is quote not a political difference that cannot be managed around negotiation tables alone and then you are in for stars from here i would renew the willingness to destroy the war on achieve peace and we are not war mongers we desire for peace and there was an agreement extending my hand. and responsibility for. which is wins over human history and other news the united nations security council unanimously passed a resolution to investigate isis crimes in iraq the council's resolution specifies that u.n. secretary general antonio terra should establish an investigative team to help iraq's authorities investigate those crimes and bring isis militants to justice reporting in new york turn of the chavez r.t. president donald trump says hurricane maria absolutely obliterated puerto rico

promising a swift recovery process for the u.s. territory the storm hold of an island with one hundred fifty five mile per hour winds yesterday knocking out all the power on the island as a category four it was the strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. commonwealth more than eighty years for more we turn to our team in the arena and my memory enough so the extent of the damage is unknown given that doesn't the municipality remain isolated and without communication what's the latest. well rescue crews rescue crews rather fanned out across the island this morning but it's impossible to know the full impact of the storm given that electricity and cell phone service is almost completely cut off hurricane maria took out the entire grid on the island and officials say it may take four to six months but before the three point four million americans living in puerto rico get their power back now puerto ricans woke up this morning to scenes of devastation and destruction hurricane

maria crushed concrete balconies ripped appliances from walls and paralyze the island with landslides flooding and downed trees downed power lines and debris in some areas have made the roads impassable and we haven't even mentioned all the roofs that been torn off of how homes and buildings now puerto rico's governor says at least one person died in the storm but the number of casualties and fatalities in some areas is unknown because it is so hard to communicate a dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed on the island but there is a glimmer of hope we should mention puerto rico's largest airport will reopen to airlines friday according to reports this offering hurricane victims a chance to flee so we know it is apparently the third hurricane president trump has confronted in less than a month though what's being done on a federal level to aid puerto rico well president trump has declared puerto rico

a disaster zone which makes federal funds available to individuals and businesses affected by the widespread damage from maria's landslides flooding and downed trees now only over fifty of the island's seventy eight minutes apologies received it doesn't nation it hasn't been explained why the entire island has not received the designation of the u.s. president provided an update on puerto rico from the united nations while he was meeting with his ukrainian counterpart puerto rico was absent. literate sugar rico got hit with winds they say they've never seen winds like this anywhere as a five category five storm which literally never happens so puerto rico is is in very very very tough shape their electrical grid is destroyed it was a good shape to start off with but their electrical grid is totally destroyed and

so many other things so we're starting the process now and we'll work with the governor of the people of puerto rico. hurricane maria was a category four storm president as he plans on visiting the island in the near future in our keep in mind just two weeks ago hurricane irma sideswiped puerto rico leaving more than one million people without power maria hammered the islands infrastructure which was already crumbling these back to back natural disasters come at a time when the u.s. territory is already struggling economically with its seventy four b. dollar debt to bondholders and unemployment above ten percent puerto rico is ten years into a recession and residents have been leaving the island from the mainland in record numbers this most recent situation is likely to compound the migration and i thank you so much marina for that report that was marina reporting in miami thank you so much thank you meanwhile on the island of dominica at least fifteen people have

died because of hurricane maria the caribbean nations prime minister said another twenty people are missing he said it's a miracle that the death toll was not in the hundreds. reports indicate the damage inflicted by hurricane harvey will have impacts for years to come according to data from the nevada geo death take laboratory the value of the water that flooded regions of the south in the midst of this disaster was so immense it caused the earth's crust to give way and estimated thirty three trillion gallons of water was reportedly left behind by the hurricane nearly four times the amount left by hurricane katrina and two thousand and five the flooding added around two hundred seventy five trillion pounds of weight to the effect that land masses causing the earth's crust to sink two centimeters hurricane harvey made landfall in the united states at the end of august killing more than eighty people and causing severe flooding that displaced tens of thousands of people according to accu weather it is

expected to be the costliest national disaster and u.s. history. now in mexico rescuers continue to struggle against all odds to find survivors trapped under the rubble after the country suffered its deadliest earthquake and thirty two years president enrique pena nieto declared three days of mourning in mexico's navy announce it recovered the body of a school worker trapped under debris at the enrique a school in mexico city workers are still trying to free a young girl trapped under the wreckage. all this comes after the seven point one magnitude earthquake decimated the school killing at least twenty six people in total fifty two people have been rescued alive since the quake scores of buildings across central mexico were damaged and the immediate aftermath of this is aster killing at least two hundred forty five people and injuring over two thousand. military leaders from the united states and russia met for an unprecedented face to

face discussion to tackle increasing tensions around the stronghold of the self-proclaimed islam and state in syria russian officials issued a severe warning to u.s. forces and their allies in syria today saying the russian military would target areas occupied by american units and u.s. backed militias if moscow else troops come under fire this comes after russian special forces were deployed alongside syrian government troops and the battle for the oil rich area province the russian ministry of defense released a statement saying the u.s. backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces scheldt syrian government positions twice and recent days syrian forces have twice come under massive mortar and rocket artillery fire coming from the areas on the eastern bank of the euphrates where s.t.'s fighters and u.s. special forces are deployed u.s. special forces are reportedly operating alongside the s.t. asked to provide artillery and other military support rather godsey every ports

from syria. and do this sort of. continues just over last night the syrian military backed by russia has liberated sixteen square kilometers they've taken to villages the russians say that eighty five percent of the dead is on the city has now been liberated and the rest will be retaken within the week there's been tremendous progress in recent weeks they've taken over dozens and dozens of settlements villages towns thousands of kilometers square kilometers from isis on the ground are russian special forces and the syrian military however very close the s.d.f. syrian democratic forces u s backed forces and there has been some tension the russians say that. over the last week or so the s.d.f. shelled syrian government positions while they were engaged in fighting isis no

less than two times utilizing more dozen rockets auxilary they say this cannot be allowed to happen they've gotten rid contact with their american politics by the hotline that the russians and the americans have established and sunday had said and strong words to keep this happens again the russians will use all available means to make sure that the syrian personnel and the russian personnel on the ground is safe to suppress any fire coming their way from us back more than that the russians say that the s.d.f. syrian democrat forces being redeployed from the rack up to date as or rack of course the volm a gap of love i said well i still holds twenty percent of the city that has lost that for many many months nevertheless before its completion of fighting us back five years of being redeployed from that today it is our provence which is a little bit suspicious because the russians also say that over the last week they

haven't detected a single clash between u.s. backed foolishness and isis in that assault. as comes as air wars a journalist led transparency project reported at least four hundred and thirty civilian casualties as a result of coalition actions during the month of august alone that's more than twice the fatalities estimated for the previous month according to recent data released by air force central command ten times more munitions were fired into rocca than in all of that ghana stand during the same month boom bust is coming up next year on our team america lindsey france joins us for a sick preview hi there lindsey hey there coming up we've got an emergency for fema as it faces a hurricane season that has not even peaks and china gets a credit downgrade also my guest and i talk about an interest rate hike in the near future and a push to shrink the fed's balance sheet that's coming right up after the news sounds like a great show thanks so much lindsey. well that does it for now for more on the

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tense situation. a lot of people in mainstream media are losing their minds right now as they come to grips with the reality that they don't control the world anymore thanks to the internet the ladies of the view are among them they're going so much right now that they're just making up conspiracy theories just recently the ladies were talking about the violence of charlottesville to mark the one month anniversary and so of course anti for came up host paula ferris began to mention that the department of homeland security has actually formally classified as a violent domestic terrorist group and that's when our co-host whoopi goldberg shut her down with some crazy talk first whoopi actually asserted that the

classification happened under obama so somehow that makes it invalid she says there were no violent protests under obama and so the whole thing just doesn't make any sense to her she actually said quote i don't remember violent demonstrations before the gentleman who's a now came in which shows exactly what i have been saying about the mainstream in hollywood for months now is one hundred percent true under obama they all fell asleep including will be apparently who doesn't remember her baltimore or ferguson or occupy wall street or black lives matter of what happened at the keystone pipeline or the university of missouri now i'm not saying all those protests were bloody massacre as or that they didn't have valid points i'm just saying under obama there were a lot of protests and tons of arrests and the mainstream including won't be just completely ignored it like it wasn't happening for her to say that she literally doesn't remember violent demonstrations before trump completely proves the

mainstream went to sleep while obama did sell the stick videos. speed but then it gets even worse for would be because she actually said that since she's never heard of mt for it must be something made up by the opposition media in the right way or racists i guess so that they could bitter about. seriously since she never heard of it it must be something made up by people she doesn't like it's just another example of how people in the mainstream are losing their minds spewing conspiracy theories left and right because they can't understand what happened maybe if they dropped their mikes for just one second stopped talking and actually listened they'd start to figure it out but it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.

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