hour of being announced the 2 sides have been fighting over the disputed territory of right of mcgovern okok those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll be back with the al-jazeera news hour in under 30 minutes coming up next entire story to stay with us. a global treaty outlawing nuclear weapons has reached its ratification goal and is set to come into force in january but no nuclear power has signed it so is the treaty a sign that the world is changing or just an empty gesture this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's been hailed as a new chapter for nuclear disarmament but opposed by the world's major powers a u.n. treaty banning nuclear weapons has now been ratified by 50 countries and will come into force next january but none of the countries that have approved it actually have a nuclear arsenal and no country that has one has approved the treaty all this raises doubts about how much it can achieve the u.n. secretary general antonio cherice has called ratification the culmination of a worldwide movement to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences o