fascinated by the issue ever since what made a huge impression on me was meeting survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki who experienced the disaster at a young age when the atomic bombs exploded there in one nine hundred forty five. it was extremely sobering to realize that these eyewitnesses wouldn't be around much longer to tell their story. with the eye and knowing it off the charts among the three. fifty at sandwich and. instead of a world without nuclear weapons we're living in one where it's looking increasingly likely that they might actually be used kim jong un and donald trump are trading threats of nuclear annihilation how close are we took a test. of this if the situation is indeed more critical and dangerous than it's been since the cold war. what's happening between trump and kim jong un the way tensions are being ratcheted up reminds me of the cuban missile crisis. if both sides remain so unyielding and given that neither side appears to be rational or reasonable and that applies as much to trump is to kim jong un then you do see the danger that this escalation will continue. they'll be m

bombing campaign in history was done in tokyo and that not even putting into into any of your hiroshima nagasaki this is the straight bombing sixteen square miles one hundred thousand people dead just a nihil a bit oh yeah we was known as i know here and what it's going to do you would know what it we would have a chemical weapons attack snow and so they're also going to us there's a little new wrinkle in the syria tales of the that everybody's been be by all sides a recent state department in syria travel warning because apparently they need to send out travel warnings to people not to go there but all men know many people like really it shouldn't go to syria this time in your escape the winter i don't know but. it is controversy the state department did because amidst the standard warnings of don't travel to syria right now because it's a hot mess this curious little acknowledgment tactics of isis high on. other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers kidnapping small kidnapping small and heavy arms improvised explosive device devices and wait for it chemical weapons what w

fascinated by the issue ever since what made a huge impression on me was meeting survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki who experienced the disaster at a young age when the atomic bombs exploded there in one nine hundred forty five. it was extremely sobering to realize that these eyewitnesses wouldn't be around much longer to tell their story. with the eye and knowing it of the. fifteen at sandwich and. instead of a world without nuclear weapons we're living in one where it's looking increasingly likely that they might actually be used kim jong un and donald trump are trading threats of nuclear annihilation how close are we took a test of. someone with looking. at the situation is indeed more critical and dangerous than it's been since the cold war. what's happening between trump and kim jong un the way tensions are being ratcheted up reminds me of the cuban missile crisis. if both sides remain so unyielding and given that neither side appears to be rational or reasonable and that applies as much to trump as to kim jong un then you do see the danger that this escalation will continue. they'll be more r

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been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror to be phillips al-jazeera london well the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can work with four hundred sixty eight partner organizations around the world it was founded in vienna in two thousand and seven during an international conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the group promotes a u.n. treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons adopted by a hundred twenty two nations it does not include the u.s. russia china britain or france. russia says it hopes the u.s. will make a balanced decision on whether to remain engaged in the landmark international deal to curb iran's nuclear program president from persecuted iran of not living up to the spirit of the twenty fifteen deal and is expected to refuse to endorse it next week we must not allow iran to obtain to obtain nuclear weapons the iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence bloodshed and chaos across the middle east that is why we must put an end to iran's

this uncomfortable space, which is frankly where i am now and have been for a while, that hiroshima and nagasaki was both necessary and unacceptable at the same time. when i am on either side of the mushroom cloud, when i am on one side and i think about hiroshima and nagasaki, i think about okinawa, i think about the american troops who had fought across the pacific, if an invasion had to take place, it wasn't the only option. i think of it as arguably necessary. when i am on the other side of the mushroom cloud, knowing that there are still people dying from the bomb and what it did, of course it is unacceptable. but i am stuck in that place. i don't think it is bad in the world of history, public history, to be stuck in messy places. none of these stories are cut and dry and easy. we talked about revisionism a little bit. i love when people say, it is a well-known fact. anytime they say that, it means i learned something back in fifth grade and i don't want to rethink this whole deal. that is what it means. yeah, this stuff is hard. i have not been to either site, but i imagine is compelling.

amy: your work with bringing out the voices of the hiroshima, nagasaki victims. want to turn to one of those victims. only interviewed ican after they won the nobel peace prize, they talked about the voices of the people being so critical. to a survivoroke of the u.s. bombmbing of hirosha august 6, 1945, now a an anti-nuclear activist who workss as a social worker in toronto, canada, serving japanese-speaking immigrants. she described that day come august 6, 1945. 13-year-old student at the girls school. ,nd i was mobilized by the army together with a group of about 30 schoolmates. act as trained to assistants. that very day, being monday, we were's host -- we were supposed to start work. at 8:00, with h the morning assembmbly. they gave us a have talk. we saiaid, we will do our best r the emperor's said. then i saw the blue flash in the windows. thes on the second floor of building, which was one point eight kilometers away from ground zero. flash, i had ae sensation of floating in the air. all of the buildings were flattened by the blast and falling. obviously,

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror. al-jazeera london we've got here mr burton go on to talk about this now he was a chemical weapons advisor to the ngos working in syria and iraq joining us from skype in the u.k. thank you for your time the idea of giving this award this very prestigious very international award to a group that none of us had really heard of appointed sort of move from the nobel committee to say this is a group which is devoting itself to this thing this issue and you the rest of the world should be as well. well it is an interesting decision are you considering twenty thirty in when you know the peace prizes given to the united nations appropriation of chemical weapons and that was a shock to anna nicole's chemical weapons was prevalent today where you have been consulted whole war i think everybody wants a nuclear free world but anything that is done to try and support that you know is to be applauded however as you quite rightly said it is annoying each other and act

fighting but their focus shifted to the japanese and then after the collapse of japan and hiroshima or nagasaki the civil conflict reignited this civil war that had been simmering came to the end game and that is where my story starts at the beginning. >> so this just hastens along so can you talk about that?. >> he went on in manchuria a couple of different times 1947 or 1948 so there is this historic debate about why cater i checked lost the civil war. end they made these errors at the decisive point that is one reason and another is he had a very difficult task in the wake of world war ii with 50 million people died with 82,100,000,000 refugees. >> i grew up in taiwan as a kid so how little to take over in china but the chinese revolution it did not that there's so many of other things happening around the world that asia was not that important. so why is this an asterisk to history?. >> i am not sure of taiwan's at this period but it could be nationalism. and everybody has forgotten so whether on taiwan or may 9 at -- mainland china. for nationalism but in mainland china is very present it

korea it's been seventy two years since nuclear weapons were first developed and dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the destruction was so catastrophic that humans have not deployed them since but now some pundits are going as far as to promote a preemptive us military strike because diplomacy has continuously failed with north korea but that is because the only option presented to kim jong un and his father before him has been for them to give up their w m d's the nine hundred sixty eight international treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons prohibits countries from developing nuclear weapons however the united states france russia china and the united kingdom are exempt from these rules because they had already had these weapons prior to signing the treaty. therefore these countries are considered the world's only legal nuclear weapons states now several other nations do have nuclear weapons like pakistan and india which have not signed the treaty israel would never admitting that most likely also has nuclear weapons more than two decades after the cold war these eight nuclear states in

korea it's been seventy two years since nuclear weapons were first developed and dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the destruction was so catastrophic that humans have not deployed them since but now some pundits are going as far as to promote a preemptive us military strike because diplomacy has continuously failed with north korea but that is because the only option presented to kim jong un and his father before him has been for them to give up their w m d's the nine hundred sixty eight international treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons prohibits countries from developing nuclear weapons however the united states france russia china and the united kingdom are exempt from these rules because they had already had these weapons prior to signing the treaty. therefore these countries are considered the world's only legal nuclear weapons states now several other nations do have nuclear weapons like pakistan and india which have not signed the treaty israel would never admitting that most likely also has nuclear weapons more than two decades after the cold war these eight nuclear states in

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror to be phillips al-jazeera london the united nations says it's braced for a further exodus refugees from me and martyr bangladesh already over half a million religion across the border since the end of august they're escaping a military crackdown in rakhine state that's been denounced as ethnic cleansing myanmar claimed was battling separatist fighters but groups say security forces. have torched hundreds of revenge of the edges and driven people from their homes. millions of women in the u.s. may no longer have access to birth control through their health insurance under new rules brought in by president trump it's one of the number of new religious freedoms which trump promised during his election campaign donna broch has the details. it's a move that could impact millions of american women the trump administration is rolling back on obamacare mandate requiring insurance coverage for contraception the white house said effective immediately a new rule a

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror to be phillips al-jazeera london well earlier this week i can executive director tweeted that donald trump was. speaking after the. diplomatic language made clear her concerns about the u.s. president. the election of president donald trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize the use of nuclear weapons and there's nothing people can do to stop it. or you can be with a tweet. who seems to be taking rational decisions very quickly. sort of not listening to expertise is it just puts a spotlight on a spotlight on what the nuclear weapons really mean. there are no right hands whether for the wrong weapons meanwhile trance reported plan to decertify the iranian nuclear deal is being greeted with dismay the european commission says the deal is working and that all sides should stick to their commitments russia's foreign minister is also backing the deal telling reporters during a visit to kazakstan that it

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror to be phillips al-jazeera london. the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can works with four hundred sixty eight partner organizations across the world it was founded in vienna in two thousand and seven during an international conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the group promotes a u.n. treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons adopted by one hundred twenty two nations it doesn't include the united states russia china britain or france well though this week icon's executive director tweeted that donald trump was a moron speaking after the award she was more diplomatic the election of president donald trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize the use of nuclear weapons and there's nothing people can do to stop him. or you can be with a tweet. who seems to be taking rational decisions very quickly. and it's sort of not listening to expertise is it just puts a spot

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror barnaby phillips al-jazeera london the small pacific island of new way has created a massive marine sanctuary in its waters it's an effort to stop overfishing the remote island north of new zealand is only two hundred sixty square kilometers but the new protected reserve is five hundred times that size is roughly the area of greece. south korea's capital has one of the world's more impressive skylines a dozens of skyscrapers that were built amid the rapid economic growth that followed the korean war but there's now a push to preserve some of the older homes that might have been forgotten because you know that went to see something in this bustling metropolis in the shadow of skyscrapers these houses known as hummocks are a slice of days gone by traditionally made from wood with tiled roofs they're designed to be cool in the summer and warm in the winter but as south korea modernized many moved out preferring the convenience of new apartment buildings. t

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror phillips al-jazeera london. i can well the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons is a coalition of nongovernmental groups in more than one hundred countries it was founded in vienna in two thousand and seven during an international conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the group promotes a u.n. treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons adopted by one hundred twenty two nations it doesn't include the united states russia china britain or france. russia says it hopes the u.s. will make a quote balanced decision on whether to remain engaged in the land while international deal to curb iran's nuclear program president from prosecution iran of not living up to the spirit of the twenty fifteen deal as expected to refuse to endorse it next week we must not allow iran to obtain to obtain nuclear weapons the iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence bloodshed and chaos across the middle east that is why we must put an end

korea it's been seventy two years since nuclear weapons were first developed and dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the destruction was so catastrophic that humans have not deployed them since but now some pundits are going as far as to promote a preemptive us military strike because diplomacy has continuously failed with north korea but that is because the only option presented to kim jong un and his father before him has been for them to give up their w m d's the nine hundred sixty eight international treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons prohibits countries from developing nuclear weapons however the united states france russia china and the united kingdom are exempt from these rules because they had already had these weapons prior to signing the treaty. therefore these countries are considered the world's only.

really after the collapse of japan, after hiroshima and nagasaki, after the end of world war ii thiskind of civil conflict reignited and they had come the support that a been simmering for years and years came to in game and that's where my story starts, the beginning of that. >> and chang kai-shek made blunders which may have hastened it alone. can you talk about what his whole strategy in manchuria -- >> yeah, , he went on the offensive in manchuria kind of -- a couple of different times, 1947, 1948 when he probably should've made some military errors. there's this whole kind of debate about why chang kai-shek loss of the chinese civil war. one of the main theories is that he made these errors at decisive points, so that was one reason. another thing though was that he had a very difficult task in the wake of world war ii. world war ii devastated china. 15 million people died in the fighting. there were like 80-100 million refugees. the economy was completely devastated. he had a tough job. >> i grew up in taiwan as a kid. i will talk about that in a minute but one thing that is al

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror phillips al-jazeera london. well the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can works with four hundred sixty eight partner organizations across the world it was founded in vienna in two thousand and seven during an international conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the group promotes a u.n. treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons adopted by one hundred twenty two nations it does not include the us russia china britain or france spirit a lot god is a senior research fellow with the norwegian institute of international affairs and specializes in security and disarmament he joins us live here on the news from oslo said a lot god we've got one hundred twenty two countries backing the u.n. treaty not one of the no nine nuclear powers maybe ten around the world have signed up to this so the nobel peace prize i'm not being sarcastic what's the point what will change the impact is two fold and both are long term first the nucl

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror that it's al-jazeera london all right still ahead so on the program power of the people we report from puerto rico on how communities are coming together. to harken. and one hundred sixty art galleries all under one roof the best of london's phrase. hello the last twenty four hours to see some pretty heavy rain in the far south asia but as fast as you can get behind that's moved into water will be moving in towards north viet nam comes just and beyond that it will probably start to fall apart leaving just the onshore effect of showers down the vietnamese coast and just touching with us at the china but most of this part of china central southern china is now enjoying the sunshine is thirty four less humid degrees and that in hong kong twenty seven in shanghai in the sunshine no breeze at all here and sichuan still sees right off the effort to three weeks now the receding monsoon has taken a pulse and that direction this is fine it can come back because

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror phillips al-jazeera london. russia says it hopes the u.s. will make a balanced decision on whether to remain engaged in the land international deal to curb iran's nuclear program president from prosecutor iran of not living up to the spirits of the twenty fifteen and is expected to refuse to endorse it next week congress will then decide if it will impose new economics and. sions on tehran. iraqi kurds alone one of their most prominent leaders to rest. was iraqi president from two thousand and five to twenty fourteen eighty three year old was widely respected as a mediator between iraq's shia sunni and kurdish communities. without funeral is taking place. he would be remembered as one of the men who did he gave his life to do kurdish cause yes joint politics when he was a teenager and he continued throughout his life calling for self-determination of the kurds so many of the people standing here i just waiting for that casket joyriding they want to give

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror phillips al-jazeera london. well earlier this week i can say executive director tweeted that donald trump was a moron speaking after the award she used more diplomatic language but made clear her concerns about the us president the election of president donald trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize the use of nuclear weapons and there's nothing people can do to stop him. or you can be with a tweet. who seems to be taking rational decisions very quickly. sort of not listening to expertise is it just puts a spotlight on a spotlight on what the nuclear weapons really mean. there are no right hands whether for the wrong weapons. well international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can works with four hundred sixty eight partner organizations across the world it was founded in vienna in two thousand and seven during an international conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the group pr

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror to be phillips al-jazeera london earlier this week i can see executive director tweeted that donald trump was a moron speaking after the award she used more diplomatic language but made clear her concerns about the u.s. president. the election of president donald trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize the use of nuclear weapons and there's nothing people can do to stop. a man that you can beat with a tweet. who seems to be taking bastion decisions very quickly. and it's sort of not listening to expertise is it just puts a spotlight on a spotlight on what this nuclear weapons really mean. there are no right hands for the wrong weapons the u.n. says it's braced for a further exodus of range of refugees from miramar to bangladesh already over half a million or injured have crossed the borders since the end of august scaping a military crackdown in the miramar state of iraq and has been denounced as

been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror. al-jazeera london . well earlier this week icons executive director tweeted that donald trump was more on speaking after the award she was more diplomatic the election of president donald trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authorize the use of nuclear weapons and there's nothing people can do to stop him. so you can be with a tweet. who seems to be taking rational decisions very quickly. sort of not listening to expertise is it just puts a spotlight on a spotlight on what this nuclear weapons really mean. there are no right hands whether for the wrong weapons. plenty more ahead on the news our lawsuit in the u.s. sets up a clash between conscience and contraception. a final farewell for a former iraqi president and champion of kurdish independence it's plus. spain booked their spot at the world cup we'll tell you how in school. the philippine president is being accused of trying to cover up allegation

hiroshima, nagasaki, their destruction, the full horror of what took place is now fading from livingor so complacent as to require a new lesson in what these weapons can do, or of the price of failing to limit their spread. the npt is one of the great diplomatic achievements of the last century. it has stood the test of time. in its restraint and its maturity, it shows an unexpected wisdom on the part of humanity, and almost evolutionary instinct for the survival of our species. it is the job of our generation now to preserve that agreement and british diplomacy will be at the forefront of that endeavour. thank you all very much indeed for your attention this morning. thank you so much. and thatis this morning. thank you so much. and that is the foreign secretary boris johnson making a speech in central london. he's been talking about north korea, saying that the us secretary of state rex tillerson is right to keep an open dialogue. he says that there needs to be toughness but engagement and they have to step up pressure on north korea. he also says iran should continue to be engaged

the price today set the executive director of ican a tribute to the survivors of nagasaki and hiroshima all a testament around the world and rebuke to nuclear powers. >> it's for south korea to stop behaving in the same way. >> reporter: the nobel committee has honored the mission of the world free of nuclear weapons before awarding the prize in 2005 to the iaea, for its efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. this year's winner, a clear message from the committee that they believe an outright ban, not a nuclear deterrent, will better safe guard peace. diana magnay, cnn, london. >>> thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. "new day" is next for viewers in the u.s. for everyone else around the world, stay with us for "amanpour." kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. whole blendshair by garnier.ishing care. legendary olive haircare. infused with olive oil & olive leaf extracts. it softens and sh

fascinated by the issue ever since what made a huge impression on me was meeting survivors of hiroshima and nagasakiho experienced the disaster at a young age when the atomic bombs exploded there in one nine hundred forty five. it was extremely sobering to realize that these eyewitnesses wouldn't be around much longer to tell their story. with the i unknowingly of the. fifteen at san. instead of a world without nuclear weapons we're living in one where it's looking increasingly likely that they might actually be used kim jong un and donald trump are trading threats of nuclear annihilation how close are we took a test. the one with look at. the situation is indeed more critical and dangerous than it's been since the cold war. what's happening between trump and kim jong un the way tensions are being ratcheted up reminds me of the cuban missile crisis. if both sides remain so unyielding and given that neither side appears to be rational or reasonable and that applies as much to trump ice to kim jong un then you do see the danger that this escalation will continue. they'll be more rocket launches more n

nagasaki bomb. groves issued the directive. >> rose: lord groves. general leslie groves, the head of the manhattan project, he issued one directive, to drop the bombs as they became available, so they dropped the hiroshima bomb, the war wasn't over. the explosion bomb became available and they dropped that. as my grandfather always stated, you know, truman could have issued an order to stop the second bomb, but a second order to bomb nagasaki was never given. and a third bomb was in h the works. >> rose: why didn't they drop that one? because by that time they surrendered? >> exactly. it was quite a ways off. >> rose: how long between the second bomb and the surrender? soon after nagasaki? >> yes. >> rose: yeah. his guilt wasn't about the bombing of japan. you know, in a war of 50 to 70 million dead, as horrible as those losses were, they pale -- >> rose: and the predictions -- i don't know what the number was, but a huge number of americans would have died if they had to invade japan. >> they peeled in significance to the number of the dead. my grandfather's belief was the bomb brought the war to a quick end and saved lives on both sides of the conflict. i don't think that could be debated. his guilt w