some reaction to the announcement with dan smith he's the director of the stockholm international peace research institute dan thank you for joining us your first thoughts when you heard i can one. i think it's a very appropriate choice i really do i was thinking before her and. hoped that the committee would decide to direct attention towards the there weapons issue because it has been rising up the political agenda but this year in a way that we haven't seen for decades really because people are beginning to feel where of increasing nuclear threats and i think that they have done it look committee that is have done it rather cleverly by pointing to a a groove to a campaign which is imagining a nuclear free world and that imagining an alternative to the risks that we see today so i think i think that to be congratulated on their choice and their cameras to be congratulated as a very worthy recipient and then i can as a campaign is it head that imagining a nuclear free world at the same time none of the nine known nuclear powers have signed up to a nuclear weapons ban in that sense what has this organization

some reaction to the announcement with dan smith he's the director of the stockholm international peace research institute dan thank you for joining us your first thoughts when you heard i can one. i think it's a very appropriate choice i really do i was thinking before him. holt that the committee it with decides to direct attention towards their weapons issue because it has been rising up the political agenda but this year in a way that we haven't seen for decades really because people are beginning to be aware of increasing nuclear reactors and i think that they have done a look committee that is have done it rather cleverly by pointing to a groove to a campaign which is imagining a nuclear free world and that imagining an alternative to the risks that we see today so i think i think going to be congratulated on their choice and i can is to be congratulated as a very worthy recipient it's dan i can as a campaign is it have that imagining a nuclear free world at the same time none of the nine known nuclear powers have signed up to a nuclear weapons ban in that sense what has this organization achieved. well

dan smith a director of the stockholm international peace research institute thank you very much for joining us thank you my pleasure. well on social media lots of reactions to the announcement already a director general with the european commission stefano months or v.c. writes congratulations i can on the two thousand and seventeen peace nobel prize or determination to be a nuclear weapon free world must continue the nobel prize twitter account praise the winner for being the leading civil society actor in the effort to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law tim wright the asia pacific director of icann has responded to the announcement saying a great honor that we have just been awarded the nobel peace prize two thousand and seventeen for our work to outlaw nuclear weapons and let's talk more about the significance of this war and with scott lucas he's a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham scott thank you very much for joining us your reaction to this announcement well i think i echo a lot of what dance nests and that the n

it quickly that it's not going to speak the sub rosa all right dan smith is a director of the stockholm international peace research institute thank you. very much. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. at least sixteen people have died and several are injured after a passenger train collided with a bus in russia officials say the bus had stalled on a rail crossing on the train was unable to stop in time while the accident happened about eighty five kilometers east of moscow all of that are feared to be back citizens. the body of former iraqi president jalal talabani has arrived back in his home city of so the media he passed away this week in germany at the age of eighty three tamani stepped down as president back in twenty four two after he suffered a stroke he was the first real rocky president of kurdish origin and has been hailed in death as a unifying figure in iraqi politics. police have fired tear gas at opposition activists in kenya's capital nairobi marches also took place in other major cities the demonstrators are calling for the dismissal of alec toral electoral board officials