right phil many people don't really like plastic bags and more than forty countries including china france and rwanda have already put limits on the use of plastic bags kenya has even introduced a jail sentence of up to four years if you produce sell or even used them but not everyone's excited small scale vendors are worried about the new anti-plastic loss and how those could impact their livelihood plastic is a problem in kenya in a strict ban has been in place for just under a month but the new regulations present fresh difficulties for some opportunities for extortion have opened up reports of security forces stopping cars to conduct unsanctioned searches for plastic bags that spread from there and small scale traders and bag manufacturers are worried about their income. for this is the business i provide for my children and pay our rent so this new law will affect my business. but something had to be done plastic bags exacerbate nairobi's already significant crash problem and are a health hazard officials hope that pushing for alternatives to plastic bags will solve those problems whi

more than forty countries including china france and rwanda ready put limits on the use of plastic bags kenya has even introduced a jail sentence of up to four years if you produce sell or even use them but not everyone's excited small scale vendors are worried about how the anti-plastic could impact their livelihood. plastic is a problem in kenya in a strict ban has been in place for just under a month but the new regulations present fresh difficulties for some opportunities for extortion have opened up reports of security forces stopping cars to conduct unsanctioned searches for plastic bags that spread. and small scale traders and bag manufacturers are worried about their income. my business will suffer this is the business i used to provide for my children and pay our rent so this new law will affect my business and i get it. but something had to be done plastic bags exacerbate nairobi's already significant crash problem and are a health hazard officials hope that pushing for alternatives to plastic bags will solve those problems while providing opportunities for those affected by t

a group of six world powers namely china france russia the united kingdom the u.s. and germany are part of the deal which included the lifting of sanctions for iran scurrying up its nuclear program about analysts say the trump administration isn't likely to back down on the agreement president i think there are two aspects that are problematic about this deal first is his overall perspective towards the muslim world which i would characterize as why would keep intact and the second is basic business s. this deal doesn't make sense from an american business perspective it doesn't benefit the united states economically the core of arc and of the ironically deal is that it brought made a series of concessions on its nuclear program in exchange for the united states essentially lifting sanctions on other countries. the international powers that brokered the deal are pressing the white house stick by it. there grammont prevent iran from its nuclear activities for ten to fifteen years it also allows to maintain some of its nuclear stockpiles for research and medical purpo

a group of six world powers namely china france russia the united kingdom the u.s. and germany are part of the deal which included the lifting of sanctions for iran scurrying up its nuclear program analysts say the trump administration isn't likely to back down on the agreement president i think there are two aspects that are problematic about this deal first is his overall perspective towards the muslim world which i would characterize as wide deep intactness and the second is basic business s. this deal doesn't make sense from an american business perspective it doesn't benefit the united states economically the core of our of the ironically deal is that it brought made a series of concessions on its nuclear program in exchange for the united states essentially lifting sanctions on other countries. the international powers that brokered the deal are pressing the white house stick by it their grammont prevent iran from its nuclear activities for ten to fifteen years it also allows them to maintain some of its nuclear stockpiles for research and medical purposes alt

members russia china and france are calling for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president donald trump stressed that military options are also available. well scott snyder is a senior fellow for korea studies at the council on foreign relations he's also the author of south korea at the crossroads he joins us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time kim jong un says he wants an equitably him in the nuclear stakes with the us what exactly do you think he means by that in practical times i think that really what kim jong un is doing is trying to level the playing field with the united states and to remove the possibility that the united states can use the military threats against kim jong un and against north korea the north koreans have lived with threat from the united states for their entire existence and they're trying to match the u.s. in terms of establishing a mutual nuclear deterrence with washington if i understand it correctly technically north korea and the u.s. are still at war because there was effectively a truce called many y

a group of six world powers namely china france russia the united kingdom the u.s. and germany are part of the deal which included the lifting of sanctions for iran scurrying up its nuclear program about analysts say the trump administration isn't likely to back down on the agreement president but i think there are two aspects that are problematic about this deal first is his overall perspective towards the muslim world which i would characterize as wide as deep intactness are and the second is basic business this deal doesn't make sense from an american business perspective it doesn't benefit the united states economically the core of arc and of the iran nuclear deal is that it brought made a series of concessions on its nuclear program in exchange for the united states essentially lifting sanctions on other countries the international powers that brokered the deal are pressing the white house stick by it. they're grim and prevent iran from its nuclear activities for ten to fifteen years it also allows them to maintain some of its nuclear stockpiles for research an

i think there's a lot of talk here to the permanent members of the security council the russia china france and england that they have to take up their responsibilities in order to ensure that you and security council resolutions are respected and implemented to say solutions withdrawal from one thousand nine hundred seventy four and the respective there in the years in the case of iran i think it was quite amazing to hear the palestinian president who lives on the occupation have to defend a simple notion that palestine is occupied and there is nothing alleged about it this is not an alledged occupation that this is an occupation and that jerusalem is occupied and it continues to be occupied fifty years later and one must note i think he is again in a desperate manner says that this is just like south africa we are heading towards a part they differ not we are living apart the the two state solution is basically the window is closing on it and hence if we're going to have to live in a one state solution one state reality then we will. then what happens next because as you say that there wa

ultimately need to happen what what does he mean by that so on the one hand you've got people in china and france and others saying they should let the sanctions take their course china said that they should do no more and no less than on the other hand you've got figures within the u.s. administration saying the time to let sanctions take their course is fast running out anyway the sanctions won't work and they're ovi asli figures within the u.s. administration pushing for action military action sooner andrea thank you very much for that f. analysis andrew thomas joining us live with all the very latest from seoul thank you. let's move on to other news now the british prime minister has raised the u.k.'s terror threat from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train on friday trees m a says she took a decision on advice from security officials twenty nine people were injured in that incident which happened during a busy morning rush hour bonnie phillips has the latest from london. it happened on london's underground which is a twenty in the morning the he

those countries are the united egg, russia britain, china, , france, india, pakistan, north korea, andael. for more, we're joined by susi snyder, nuclear disarmament program manager for the netherlands-based group pax, and author of the report, "don't bank on bomb." welcome to democracy now! talk about what happened this week at the u.n.. >> 50 countries said, we ultimately reject nuclear weapons. we find them completely illegitimate and we're willing to sign the first treaty that makes them totally illegal. this is the first 50. that are 42 in an hour. it is the first time that nuclear weapons are categorically prohibited. this is new and it is an effective measure that responsible countries are taking to make sure to reduce nuclear dangers. amy: what is that mean exactly? what does it mean to adopt it and now to sign it and what happens with ratification? >> every country has a ratification process that is a little different. adopting this treaty is part of national law. there are already 115 countries that have rejected nuclear weapons and regional agreements. we expect a lot of tho

a group of six world powers namely china france russia the united kingdom the u.s. and germany are part of the deal which included the lifting of sanctions for iran scurrying up its nuclear program about analysts say the trump administration isn't likely to back down on the agreement president i think there are two aspects that are problematic about this deal first is his overall perspective towards the muslim world which i would characterize as wide deep intactness and the second is basic business this deal doesn't make sense from an american business perspective it doesn't benefit the united states economically the core of arc and of the iran nuclear deal is that the broad made a series of concessions on its nuclear program in exchange for the united states essentially lifting sanctions on other countries. the international powers that brokered the deal are pressing the white house stick by it their grammont prevent iran from its nuclear activities for ten to fifteen years it also allows staff run to maintain some of its nuclear stockpiles for research and medical

off to pyongyang fired yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month russia china and france are calling for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis mike hanna has this report from washington d.c. . usa a poll celebrates its seventieth anniversary and here to address the troops and their families president trump makes clear the air force may have a role to play in addressing the undoing north korea crisis after seeing your capabilities and commitment here today i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat are both effective and overwhelming. earlier speaking at the white house the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. emphasize that sanctions could still be an effective weapon if you look at the resolutions that have passed in the last month or two of them they cut thirty percent of the oil they banned all the labors they banned ninety percent of the exports they banned joint ventures we've basically taken in the words of north korea we have strangled their economic situation at this point that's going to take a little bit of time but it has already star

members russia is pledging to implement the latest round of sanctions bob has been joined by china and france and pushing for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president may have other ideas in his speech to troops he emphasized that military options are also available well mike hanna has this report from washington d.c. . the u.s.s. cole celebrates its seventieth anniversary and here to address the troops and their families president trump makes clear the air force may have a role to play in a christian ongoing north korea crisis after seeing your capabilities and commitment here today i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat are both effective and overwhelming earlier speaking at the white house the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. emphasize that sanctions could still be an effective weapon if you look at the resolutions that have passed in the last month or two of them they cut thirty percent of the oil they banned all the labors they banned ninety percent of the exports they banned joint ventures we've basically taken in the words of north kor

members russia china and france are calling for talks is the only way to resolve the crisis but u.s. president donald trump has stressed that military options are also available. britain's terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened at one of the busiest times of the morning u.k. prime minister theresa may is warning a further attack may be imminent. more than one hundred schoolgirls who were freed from boko haram can in may have been reunited with their families in nigeria on wednesday the government held what it called a send forth event for the girls who were kidnapped by the group in twenty fourteen the girls went through months of rehabilitation before they went back to their families and they're now being sent to a boarding school in the nigerian city. i'm a dangerous has more from the capital. the decision to move the girls to a boarding school in the north of the country instead of going directly to chibok was influenced by certain d

i'm not aware of one government including russia, china, france, germany, great britain, that didn't think saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. but remember, the climate of going into iraq was in the heels of the terrorist attack on 9/11 and what had been happening because of a vacuum in afghanistan with a government that couldn't keep its country free of terrorism. and that spread. and it was spreading into iraq. so there was great concern. you know, there were thousands of young men and women who answered the noble call of public service after what happened on september 11th, 2001, those individuals rose to the responsibility to help the president keep his oath of office and to make sure that we'd be a free nation and a beacon to the world. i still honor those people who answered the noble call of public service. and are willing to follow the command of the commander in chief. and i point out that president trump has come to recognize just how hard the responsibilities are as president and that some of the things that he talked about as a candidate are not viable when yo

syria from abroad the lion's share of foreign i still recruits came from tunisia than russia china russia france germany the u.k. also among the countries from where a significant number of citizens left to fight. many of those who went to syria and iraq to fight for islamic state brought their families. but with terror groups suffering a string of major defeats the wives and children of a large number of killed five has opened up in refugee camps with uncertain futures and aleksey was to talk to some of the widows of foreign extremists in iraq where hundreds of families are stranded the location and identities will not be disclosed . says china. because it is such a dumb was it is. people like. you have. any of. the legal fate of the wives of i saw the fight is not yet clear meanwhile in europe last year around six hundred people were put on trial for terrorism with more than three hundred fifty prosecuted for ties to jihadism should the why by so fight is be treated in the same way as other is the most extremists we discussed the issue with political commentators. and. well i think the most im

off to pyongyang five yet another missile over japan the second in less than a month russia china and france are calling.

not the russia not china not france not u.k. not israel not of these countries not india not packed pakistan none of them signed on to the prohibition treaty so just how big of a step is this been for disarmament so joining me now is suzy snyder nuclear disarmament program manager at pax issues he welcome to the show hey thanks very much great to be here so you were in new york you were there for these events what was it like well it was rather exciting the secretary general of the u.n. opened the session the president the general assembly spoke the president of the international committee of the red cross and a crescent spoke president of costa rica and the director of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and they gave some opening remarks said how important it is that we do everything we can to make nuclear get nuclear weapons off the planet in a safe and secure way and that we need to really do this because any use of nuclear weapons would cause catastrophic humanitarian consequences they welcomes the treaty

members russia is pledging to implement the latest round of sanctions but it's being joined by china and france in pushing for talks as the only way to resolve the crisis yet u.s. president donald trump may have other ideas in a speech to troops he emphasized that military options were also available mike hanna has this report from washington d.c. usa a poll celebrates its seventieth anniversary and here to address the troops and their families president makes clear the air force may have a role to play in addressing the undoing north korea crisis after seeing your capabilities and commitment here today i am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this thread are both effective and overwhelming. earlier speaking at the white house the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. emphasize that sanctions could still be an effective weapon if you look at the resolutions that have passed in the last month or two of them they cut thirty percent of the oil they banned all the labors they banned ninety percent of the exports they banned joint ventures we've basically taken in the words of north korea

you put china and france first, why shouldn't we? >> to get on trump's good side you have to say this is the best speech ever. was that statement fair? >> you don't have to be a rocket scientist to note majority of the american people want a disciplined, calculated and diplomatic solution to deterring north korea. kennedy: glad you brought it up. >> when he casually threatens nuclear war -- kennedy: i wanted you to respond to putting america first. but now let's talk about north korea. >> the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we'll have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. kennedy: go ahead. >> i think that if trump is going to focus on our allies, one of the things that the reality is, since this election we have lost so much credibility. pew had a report out where america's standing in the world has plummeted, 60, 71% of our allies don't trust trump on foreign policy. kennedy: why should we be

it's not realistic to say we are going to stop trading with china or france or germany or other countries who have economic links with north korea. instead, if there is stability it has come from, for example, the defense secretary james mattis who tried to reassure allies saying we are going to defend you if north korea takes any aggressive action saying at the same time we are not going to push the button. we are not going to take this to a military show down. diplomacy is the only end to this crisis, trump does not help that with his twitter activity. hopefully he'll be put off to the side. >> you've been watching this for a long time, how concerned should we be in this sort of brinkmanship we've seen playing out between kim jong-un and donald trump. >> of course we should be concerned. what we're seeing is a couple of alpha males, an alpha male north korean regime and an alpha male u.s. president. and the north koreans will continue to do this because they know they can wind trump up so we need to step back before a mistake occurs, for example a north korean missile going off course a

dropped on japan nag asack a y this test sparked international condemnation this morning from china, france, russia, south korea says hr mcmaster has spoken with them during emergency phone call however the pentagon tells fox news u.s. will have no official response until they assess the situation and also this morning japanese self-defense forces are collecting par particles from the area to test what the result has been. developing in the district now a search for a killer following a triple shooting in southeast this morning is dead and two other people hurt after someone opened fire along harriet tub man road saturday night. live this morning with the details on this story. good morning, anjali. >> reporter: good morning, tom, well this shooting helped twelve hours ago. you can see d.c. police on scene here and they still have entire corner of tubman road at 15 place roped off. you can see several townhouses inside that crime scene there. this is a neighborhood off alabama avenue with a 19-year-old girl was killed and two others were also hit by gunfire and tun to the hospital. last nig

china. orto france -- if france germany did it they might not face the same pressure. >> that would be the caseself,echnology in there is a suggestion that some of it could be embedded to the monitoring use, if a company could somehow see what's happening, if they were disseminated through the marketplace -- >> there's an element of that in the networking equipment. >> 28% of revenue. fpdas, bute ofin, i want to stress, course security is the stated reason, of course security is the reason when we look at these things, but fundamentally, the u.s. semiconductor industry, the u.s. government does not want china coming in and taking those key capabilities away from it. >> loss competes in this area? >> intel. alterra. alterra was a lot more focused on networking and bigger. >> they divide the market between them. >> is there a notion -- there seemed to be a suggestion that it was being used in a lot more stuff than it used to be. i thought of it at the time as kind of an accelerator into a networking chip. >> this has always been the argument, that these chips have had a specific use case, narrowl

from nearby in southeast asia these are companies garment cunt companies right holland germany france china so they'll ship them to china for the low cost of labor but then china which has a higher cost of labor than even north korea ships it into north korea right the average per capita income in north korea is a thousand dollars a year in china it's eight thousand just across the border by the way in south korea it's twenty seven thousand so they're really poor people and they work for peanuts now the question is whether or not these sanctions that the u.n. put in place will actually be hold up because there's a port there along that eight hundred eighty mile border with china and the in the province or the town rather of dandong. and that's a major export club and supposedly even though these sanctions are in place they could smuggle across the river at night winds right so we'll have to see on textiles what are your biggest concerns here just as you watch this whether or not your opinion sort of anecdotal well other than nuclear war there is there is a obviously no i mean i am concerned

i know president obama did and we brought china, russia, britain, france, and germany. ared tossinger be saying that this has to be a true joint venture. china listens to the united states concern. and if we can do that and get a g whatfrom president pin they want as a result, which might be quite different from us, it might be the only way to exact that kind of leverage through energy shipments and food shipments that would make, force, co-worst north korea to the table. and again, charlie, this is a very messy process. that that's where we are. a messy compromise that ultimately froze the program in place is far preferable to having this program continue unconstrained for the next several years. look forward to seeing you again soon. picking up on that point, it davids me of a piece that baker wrote in the times today saying "trump skills in the art of the deal have yet to pay off ." assume from a diplomatic standpoint that ,omeone is saying, as an envoy what is it you need in order to solve this? >> i think that's right. if you go back over the years and you talk to p

five others involved, it is a p5 plus one so the members of the un security council russia, china, uk, france and us plus germany. they are not interested in pitching that agreement. and i fail to understand how pitching out of this agreement is going to make israel safer. so for me it was a simple proposition. which would you rather have, the state sponsor of terrorism or state-sponsored terrorism without a nuclear weapons capability. and for me, i would pick the latter because that is what we've got right now. the agreement wasn't designed to cure world hunger and make it a shining city on the hill. that was never the point and if we try to negotiate some kind of comprehensive feel-good thing and all the behavior in the region never got anywhere. so, we took over a blast administration and i was trust the intel guy speaking out as a private citizen and i also wonder the focus on whether or not it is agreeing with the spirit while rush is abjectly violating the treaty approved by the senate. .. >> it was a big deal, this is back in 85, 8687 now, they come by the hundreds. most all want to gr

hilt with nuclear weapons the us and russia lead the way with a few thousand warheads each while france china the u.k. all have a few hundred nukes at their disposal pakistan india and israel meanwhile have between fifty one hundred forty bombs each why when we know the threat they pose to the continued existence of human civilization our nuclear weapon still such a significant part of the global arsenal and how can we prevent their spread and maybe even do away with one them once and for all joining me now is joe cirincione president of the ploughshares fund author of several books including most recently nuclear nightmares securing the world. before it's too late joe welcome back to the program thank you tom pleasure to be here it's been too long so yeah i thought first of all just like a baseline is there such a thing as mutually assured destruction yeah it's a fact of life it's not a strategy or theory it's the fact that countries have enough nuclear weapons that no other country could attack them and hope to eliminate all those weapons so if a country a attacks country b. country b. is g

their name on the dotted line not russia not pakistan not india not israel not great britain not france not china definitely not the united states of america not one of them had the courage to back up the peace they always preach instead nations like cuba or brazil ireland libya mexico they all stepped up and promised the world a nuclear free future so i say let's applaud these countries for bringing us a step closer to peace as we continue watching the hawks. at the bottom. you know that i got. the. world over what are you watching the hawks i am i robot and on top of all that so once again we're looking at these ideas of how to you know it's peace day so let's talk about how we can get peace one of those would be not threatening each other with nuclear weapons that literally and i laid all of humankind i mean you would think of the great idea i know that some old brighter what should be what's interesting too is the japan who is the only victim in world history didn't also didn't sign this new ban as well and that's because a they live under this you know quote unquote protection of the u.s. as

the president of china is asking president of france to help restart diplomatic talks about north korea. china's president says he told french president emanuel macron in a phone call today he is hoping that france can play a constructive role in restarting talks on north korea. the chinese president says he believes that north korean nuclear issue can only be resolved through peaceful means including. the tension, on the korean peninsula have escalated as you know as north korea has carried out several missile launch, including sits sixth and biggest nuclear test last sunday >>> at 5:13, as hurricane irma is barreling florida, congress has approved of relief package. >> as doug luzader reports, the aid package will put a financial strain. >> reporter: because of everything else that's tacked on to this, it is going to put some lawmakers in a tough spot. >> there is no question that texas needs help and lots of it. on top of that, florida. they have never seen winds like this coming off the ocean. >> hopefully it's not going to hit florida very directly but it looks like it's going to b

order or france or china. even you know china is a very important country but they're all they're important countries and. i think the two thousand and fourteen is not exactly around the corner. more than twenty years to get their perception of me change the future of electric cars has to be proven it will be proven i believe you know this is a tendency that will play out but progressively so even when when people speak of. demand this should not be viewed as. a dramatic peak after which there is a collapse in the net and i think there will be a longer period in which. we remain in demand but perhaps it is the man will not grow as much as it has grown in the past good to speak with you professor. thanks very much for being with us thank you and finally if you're going to have a digital discussion where better than the birthplace of skype were a challenge reports from tallinn in estonia. coding kids these are stony and children haven't started high school yet but already they're programming robots you can reall

. >> britain, france, china, russia, germany, this all want to stay with this agreement.reement. it is president trump that has a beef with it. if his big reveal is that the u.s. is going to get out of this or not refi it, then what? >> well, the current reporting by the "new york times" and others on this is that they are going to try to amend the deal. because there is not technically in compliance, they want to see if they can add to it. this is trump saying, look, i'm a deal makic make a better deal. particularly not sponsoring terrorism. can they be added? mack r macron indicated a willingness to do that. not only does it impact the credibility with our allies but any hope of convening a coalition against north korea. >> let's dig down as to why. you pull out. allies are upset about a waste of time and effort. what does it mean to the north korean situation if the president makes a negative move on the iran deal? >> i wrote a little bit about this in the "times" today. and the core concept here is if you're kim jong-un and you're sitting in pyongyang and you're think

pulls out, doesn't mean france, china, uk, eu are pulling out as well.want to stick with the deal. they seem very clear about that. if you had your bet, do you think the u.s. pulls out of this. >> it's unclear to say what trump is thinking. from what tillerson is saying yesterday, they're discussing the problems and saying iran has technically fulfilled agreement to the deal, but aspirationally they haven't. that makes it seem like he's thinking the about pulling out. there's another nuclear problem in north korea. you don't want to risk it with iran. >> let me ask you about the relationship between turkey and russia. some concerned they're getting closer especially given the conflict that remains in syria. what did the turkish president have to say about that relationship. >> it was interesting. he didn't outright say russia is an ally. he did hint to that. he said he thinking increasing allies is a smart decision especially with the syrian problem that russia has been a great help to them. so that's a bit tricky because if he wants to work with the u.s

security council, russia, china, uk, france and us. plus germany. and they're not interested in pitching out of that agreement. and you know, i fail to see, i fail to understand how pitching out of this agreement is going to make israel safer, for example. so for me, it was a very simple proposition. which would you rather have, a state sponsor of terrorism with a nuclear weapon capability or a state sponsor of terrorism without a nuclear weapons capability? and for me, i sort of pick the latter. because that's what we've got right now. the agreement was not designed to cure word hunger and make iran the shining city on the hill. that was never the point. and had we tried to negotiate some comprehensive you know feel good thing, and end all the iran's nefarious behavior in the region and never got anywhere. so we took away, the last administration did, and i was just the intel guy. so i wasn't involved in the policy on this. so i'm just speaking now as a private citizen. and i also wonder the focus on whether or not iran is agreeing with the spirit