the n.p.r. thank you very much for that. i would like to introduce our johnspeaker, general hyten, u.s. air force, responsible for global command control of u.s. strategic forces providing a broad range options for the president and secretary of defense. hyten's distinguished a variety ofes positions. join me inome -- welcoming general hyten. [applause] general hyten: good morning, everybody. honorable trachtenberg, fritz, it's good to be here. much for giving me opportunity to come and peek to you about the nuclear posture review. remarks will be focused on the nuclear posture review today. you heard me talk about a lot of just goingtoday i'm to talk about the nuclear business of our nation. it is one of the most significant things we do. it is the most significant thing my command does and after my remarks i'll make sure i set questions sor we'll have plenty of time for questions at the end but let me it.right to so, for seven decades, across 10 administrations, presidents and leaders from bot

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it was a night for the history books as the twenty eighteen winter olympics kicked off n.p.r. chang the two koreas march together and south korea's president shared a historic handshake with kim jong un sr amid a spirit of unity in fact kim sr is the first member of the north swilling dynasty to venture south since the korean war but is this rapid improvement in korean ties the beginning of a new era in relations or merely smoke and mirrors we will ask an expert in just a moment first this report. demonstrators outside the olympic stadium gave the north koreans a hostile reception they clashed with riot police and made their feelings towards the north known. reality. show you know what. we are we want to hold our own. north korea's olympic delegation mocked and historic first it included kim jong the youngest sister of leader kim jong un she's the first member of north korea's ruling dynasty to cross the border since the korean war south korean president moon j.n. well come to by extending the hunter friendship a sign of his high diplomatic ambitions for the games but not ever

you'd never know it watching cable news but you're right that this n.p.r. shows that the president and the people around him believe in the usability of nuclear weapons to talk about this right that would be one of the main features of the president's new nuclear posture review is this idea that they should completely revamp our nuclear arsenal and we should focus on more flexibility in our nuclear by which the socially they mean they want to design nuclear weapons that have a smaller payload we can hiroshima size payload so that they can countenance the use of nuclear weapons without completely destroying humanity which is crazy basically because anybody who's in the scientific community will tell you that a very very limited exchange of nuclear weapons potentially destroys the entire world freud. environmental reasons but the trump posture review pretty much says this openly and i go into a present of this country because there's only one story in this country and it's you know trumps ongoing you know scandals right down to the interim scandal they rush a

you'd never know it watching cable news but you write that this is n.p.r.shows that the president and the people around him believe in the usability of nuclear weapons to talk about this right that would be one of the main features of the president's new nuclear posture review is this idea that they should completely revamp our nuclear arsenal and we should focus on more flexibility in our nuclear by which the socially they mean they want to design nuclear weapons that have a smaller payload like her she must pay would so that they can countenance the use of nuclear weapons without completely destroying humanity which is crazy basically because anybody who's in the scientific community will tell you that a very very limited exchange of nuclear weapons potentially destroys the entire world for a. environmental reasons but the trump posture review pretty much says this openly and i go to the present this country because there's only one story in this country and it's you know trumps ongoing you know scandals right down go in terms can't all they rush again st

and i'm tatiana phantasm hall with the sport where history has been made to n.p.r. the czech republic and that cup becomes the fast athlete to win gold in both and snowboarding at a single until. the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding a thirty day truce in syria to allow aid access it follows days of negotiations at un over the wording of the document five hundred people have been killed in seven days of syrian government attacks on rebel held east and thousands of people are trapped in on the ground shelters many of which are providing little protection against the syrian and russian rockets and bombs. every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering group getting to a vote became a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why. at least nineteen health facilities have been bombed and sunday's nineteen as they dragged out the negotiation the bombs from assad's fighter jets continued to fall in the three days it took us to adopt this resolution how many mothers lost th

distinct disadvantage this includes australia but one on likely pair getting ready to make their debut n.p.r. homan reports. it's one of the boys picture rest sports at a winter olympics yet this is a rare sight and a strongly in figure skating job getting ready for the gave. the catarina alexandrescu and holly windsor make an unlikely pairing russian born alexandra was granted a strongly in citizenship just four months ago while wins are from western sydney is set to become the country's first indigenous winter olympian that has really completely sunk in yet i feel like i'm sinking a bit more want to being at the games and actually represented but you know i can i can wear like a badge of honor you know and i hope that i can sort of a role model for other indigenous people move towards winter sports. while many countries hold beastly competitive olympic trials to select the figure skating teams just having an aussie pair on the ice is an achievement of the twelve winter olympic medals ever won by australia only two of them have come on ice and boyd in speedskating there are only two dozen e

the twenty eighteen winter olympics open n.p.r. when extraordinarily show of unity between north and south korea but the u.s. keeps its distance.

on norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speeds of who's already won a bronze and a silver n.p.r. chang almost i feel proud for splits off we see this young guy winning bronze here this was a great surprise for me was dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion in africa and of course the athletes feel our support the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without. a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or coach so yes here at all the races as a stand crying tears she was the one who raised the new generation of olympic medalists in skiing. before our athletes were suspended from competition the initial plan was to get one gold medal one or two silver and then one of us who bronze but given the fact that we came to the olympics missing eight athletes six and reach our team leaders in world skiing i said if we win only one prize it will mean though we've done better than we planned five medals and you can. sing by the

norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speeds of who's already want to braun's in a silver n.p.r. chang almost i feel proud for spit so off you see this young guy winning bronze here this was a great surprise for me was dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion in africa and of course the athletes feel as a package the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without . a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or a coach so yes here at all the races as a thing and crying tears she was the one who raised the new generation of olympic medalists in skiing just before our athletes were suspended from competition the initial plan was to get one gold medal one that's a silver and then one of us who bronze but given the fact that we came to the olympics missing eight athletes six and reach our team leaders in world skiing i said if we win only one prize it will mean though we've done better than.

other words elevates n.p.r. russian alexander actress from its case one of broad was with his wife and mixed doubles colleagues as tested positive for a banned substance the international olympic committee is currently awaiting the results of tests on his brain samples and the court of arbitration for sport has launched what they call a doping procedure. a heart medication that is once again at the center of a russian doping controversy the over the counter drug can give athletes an edge by boosting stamina in twenty sixteen dony and was classified as a banned substance in many sports which led to maria sharapova is fifteen month ban from tennis. after winning a bronze medal with his wife in the mixed curling event alexander crucial netsky tested positive for the drug a fact that has surprised his countryman. yes no. sports me i know that all athletes repeatedly during the season and before their departure underwent doping controls and the probes were always negative otherwise nobody would have allowed them here

on norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speeds of who's already won a bronze and a silver n.p.r. chang almost i feel proud for spit so off you see this young guy winning bronze here this was a great surprise for me was dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion in africa and of course the athletes feel i suppose the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without. a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or a coach so yes here at all the races as a thing and crying tears she was the one who raised the new generation of olympic medalists in skiing. before our athletes were suspended from competition the initial plan was to get one gold medal one that's whosoever and then one of us who bronze but given the fact that we came to the olympics missing eight athletes six and reach our team leaders in world skiing i said if we only one promise it will mean there we've done better than we planned five medals. counting by the c

now on to the winter olympics which isn't day to n.p.r. we're joined by nick mechanic live from day job use a sports desk so let's go through all the latest action we know that seven gold medals gold medal skills they were supposed to be awarded today but only six actually were what happened there alpine skiing has been postponed to first because of heavy wind and the other six medals the netherlands kept up their dominance winning in in this speedskating you have been enough all wanting the first gold medal for france in and you have of course another gold medal for germany on pot pie for. winning the biathlon so that he wasn't supposed to win he wasn't actually one of the favorites to quite a surprise there but the biggest stories today are actually felix lawson of the german who's won the last two of them picks not finishing in the medals that quite disappointing their seventeen year old wonderkid winning in the slopestyle snowboarding and a massive comeback in the thirty kilometer scaffold you mentioned felix lost there that must have

well staying with the winter olympics it is day two now n.p.r. going to talk to you from the sports desk here to bring us up to date on all the action alina seven gold medals being decided today what to look forward to and so yes a bit of a gold rush for germany so far on peiffer and that's peiffer and not try for he made of gold medal number three after winning gold in the men's by athlone by as long as the skiing shooting ok. you have the combination of both exactly and but history was also made when speed skater us then come out and this is a man who is a superstar in the netherlands they just love him she actually won his for it straight gold medal in the men's five thousand need a speed skating event that's something that's been never done well so yeah pretty exciting and of course a big day for seventeen year old red gerard on the slopestyle wow yeah it just keeps getting better and yet it doesn't it so yeah it was a huge night for him and it all came down to one bold and risky move so he basically had one last shot at nori and he did it wi

between the divided koreas north korean leader kim jong un has invited south korea's president to me n.p.r kim jong un's sister to deliver the invitation in seoul against the backdrop of the winter olympics the diplomatic comes despite an acceleration in the north's weapons programs last year and pressure from sols allies in washington. excited fans wait to greet the combined korean women's hockey team the first didn't think history and the coming together on the ice symbolizing hopes of woman relations between the south and its belligerent move neighbor i didn't win or lose the result doesn't matter i hope they play their best and try their hardest in a show of unity in the sense. this is a god given chance that we seventy million korean people can be of one mind to support the team. those hosts feasted by another historic moment off the ice meeting in seoul kim jong un's younger sister kim yo jong delivered an invitation from the north korean leader for south korean president moon jay in to visit pyongyang it raises the prospect of the first meeting between both korean leaders for more t

olympics look forward to a lame of course the way this is on our website thanks for taking us to day to n.p.r. . and turning out of the bonus like us to move further away from the relegation zone after beating us to mention club off one nil forward in czech struck the only goal of the game after just five minutes stood guard are yet to lose a game under new college typhoon core cut victory puts them four points clear of the relegation playoff spot and seven clear of the automatic drop zone. and that's due to the news we'll be back at the top of the hour for an update first we'll leave you with all the sound bite you can handle this carnival mania sweeps brazil i'm sara harmon from the whole team thanks for watching. lol. lol. lol if you were to. just say to blow. the lovely. world. will. judge. me. take it personally if you went with the wonderful people and still make the game so special. for all. your then sort of online. free one mind it was made by you better known as millie. towards the. little.

officially kicks off the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics to see a pictures of the olympic stadium n.p.r. chuang where the opening ceremony is getting underway but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition also coming up politics at play this olympics brings the first ever visit to south korea by a member of the north sea the ruling that dynasty can draw on sister what is behind her diplomatic democrats the border. and a race against time after the earthquake in taiwan rescue crews try to locate a family trapped under this hotel that aftershocks make it dangerous work. i'm so new so much going to good to have you with us the opening ceremony of the twenty third winter olympics are about to start in a pyong chuang south korea and we have some live pictures here of that stadium nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries will be entering this sold out stadium over the coming hours of the games have had to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of this huge gala event the i.o.c. and the athletes will be looking to put

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spectacular closing ceremony for the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day n.p.r. in chiang russia's ice hockey team soft germany for three and a nail biting final one gives a limp athletes from russia a total of seventeen medals in south korea. and in the stories that shapes the week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics going to realize it was embarrassing hoax.

spectacular closing ceremony of the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day n.p.r. rushes ice hockey team defeated germany for three in a nail biting a final there when they gave a limp dick after from russia a total of seventeen medals. on day one of the stories that shaped the week germany's leading tabloid publishers wanted thought it was only deniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was.

n.p.r.this n.p.r. ensures we can adversary,potentia because they are not all alike. >> schifrin: the review lls for deploying new, relatively small nuclear weapons carried on submarines, and bringing back nuclear-tipped cruise missiles rer ships. thew also says the u.s. would consider using nuclear nuapons in response to non- ear attacks, such as strikes on critical infrastructure. john rood is the undersecretary of defense for policy. >> in the context of a non-nuclear attack on the united states or allies that was strategic in nature, that imposed substantial impacts to our infrastructure, to our people, that we would consider that context in evaluating the appropriate response, perhaps to include nuclear weapons. >> schifn: the administration maintains the obama administration goal of rliminating nuclear weapons, but it sees the as more danger the cold war.me since >> perhaps someday in the future, moment when the countries of the world will get together to elimine their nuclear weapons.

officially kicks off the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics pictures of the olympic stadium n.p.r. chuang where the opening ceremony is getting underway but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate a final ruling bars dozens of russian athletes from the competition also coming up politics at play the.

also coming up in the next sixty minutes and they tend n.p.r. chatting sees a winter olympics debut as new warnings of big air competition wows the crowds in south korea and. then we're live at the red carpet for the hot wind bark at the twenty eighteen berlin international film festival we'll give you our picks so i thought that coveted gold and that. laid a hallmark thanks very much for your company every. on human rights monitors say the syrian government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebel held area close to the syrian capital damascus killing scores of people the syrian observatory for human rights says the government air raids on eastern ghouta have killed seventy one people over the past twenty four hours and injured three hundred twenty five a suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years the united nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the area which is home to some four hundred thousand people. well elsewhere in the syrian conflict the syrian state news agency says per regime forces are going to h

followed by some very disappointing news for the russian team because a second russian athlete here n.p.r. in chiang tested positive for doping earlier this week it was russian curler alexander crucial lead ski whose medal had to be taken away it was because of this time it's a female bobsledder she was in on the podium and it was a different drug but this case is still being investigated although it has been confirmed by the russian sporting officials back to the good news the reason why this square was filled with russian flags and cheering fans just a little earlier as of course the fact that the o.e.r. team and eyes hawkie the men's eyes hockey team qualified for the gold medal game after beating the czech republic three to nothing and other news last night i hung out with donald trump and kim john well they're look alikes actually.

norway's heels made twenty one year old dennis speed solve who's already won a bronze and a silver n.p.r. chuang again that's despite his vastly more experienced team leaders sitting it out saw cheel a big champion aleksandr left off who spotted by the i.o.c. was ruled illegal in court two times world champion surrogate was still go who has never been involved in any doping scandals but still got sidelined by the i.o.c. and others but an immensely weakened russian squad is on the podiums no matter what thanks to athletes who were just teenagers are a year or two ago. dedicated himself completely to the sport how is it possible not to support such passion and the effort and of course the athletes feel our support . i feel proud for splits off everyone was talking about last year gough invalid john and we see this young guy winning bronze here this was a great surprise for me the performance against all the odds wouldn't have been possible without. a former olympic champion now in charge of the washing cross-country skiing federation she wasn't allowed to come to korea as an official or a

korea and the rest of the world is going to play out now president moon is hoping to bring washington n.p.r. new onto the negotiating table but when you hear this who is nuclear but is bigger talk from trump and kim jong goon calling him a loser if the u.s. and north korea finally hold talks are all those insults going to be just tossed aside and forgotten about completely like they never happened nor will it be a mutual gretsch what do you think one matters is the national interest nothing of the leader's emotion therefore you've. can get together they would come up with a much more practical discussions on the use of the new creation of north korea to fore yes you know possibly this could have a some kind of emotional scars on those in the exchange of hostile remarks to but i personally believe that they will be able to overcome such a kind of pass through by pushing for national interest and you know there's a common interest of mankind is that south koreans are coordinating closely with washington cosell thing before making any move why south korea need washington's blessing to engage i

n.p.r.'s. tom really does fly and i can't believe that it's already the and young chang twenty eight ing we've seen the closing ceremony and the nation's parade at it and i'll tell you what it was much warmer than the opening on february ninth quite literally and the fans didn't have to freeze themselves that much to see the spectacle something that hasn't changed though is the fate of the russian athletes who weren't able to march with their national colors there had been a glimmer of hope that they'd be allowed to do that but earlier on sunday the i.o.c. decided not to lift the suspension of russia's national olympic committee after two of the all way our athletes tested positive for doping although the i.o.c. president has said that these two cases appear to be isolated these are cases off of negligence and there is no indication. of so ever for a systemic or systematic. that doping affair here the astley's who failed the test though claim it could have been a result of sabotage or some sort

here we have a train go artsy n.p.r. . there's growing concern among the jewish community in germany after more than fourteen hundred anti semitic crimes were registered there last year there's also been a wave of anti-semitic demonstrations with protestors burning israeli flags and shouting anti jewish slogans. the german government says it is addressing the problem last month that launched a special commission to monitor anti jewish incidents it follows years of appeals from the jewish community to raise awareness of the hate crimes we spoke to a rabbi in berlin a things people need to come together if the problem is to be defeated. has to become much clear to people in this country especially to refugees that have recently arrived that we all share a personal responsibility and that it will not be tolerated where the burning of flags of israel whether the any attack on any community any child in the school will not be tolerated as years zero tolerance policy for anti-semitic attacks and that has to be clear it has to be

n.p.r. sang. well the winter olympics are the only major sporting event you might want to follow this year with the football world cup now just months away host stan collymore looks into the history of the legendary football club that despite his massive influence on the game never hit the big time. little quiz for you which could spoil all white kicks. which quote gave. to three separate england guy which inspired one of brazil right football clubs ladies and gentlemen i give you corinthian casuals. what actually happened was in nineteen zero seven there was a split between the f.b.i. and what became the. and it was quite acrimonious to do with amateur professional and the if i refused to allow any if i play as all clubs to appear on the pitch is over there so there was a complete split their spirit was healed and just what you saw in the first world. after the first world war the two clubs struggled over one hundred players between the two sides were killed in the one nine hundred twenty s. stro

russian athletes from competing ever again then your court says no the sanctions must be lifted but then n.p.r. and chang cass rejects the appeals so i thought that the sanctions were about competing in the first place how is that possible maybe to summarize this without being too legalistic we call the first case the such a case in the second case the case of such a case was a disciplinary case initiated by the international olympic committee versus many athletes many russian athletes and we had that case that we heard in geneva two weeks before the start of the games involving thirty nine russian athletes. this was a totally unusual case i think in the history of caste because it was not a classic doping case where you have a positive test by an athlete in the athlete has to establish his innocence here it was the national olympic committee which had to prove to establish the guilt of these athletes so it had to show evidence and we decided i mean the cast determined that on eleven cases there was sufficient evidence to confirm that there was an anti-doping rule violation but for twenty eigh

n.p.r. . the french president is on course to take another campaign plane off the list and money on like drones promising to bring back a compulsory military service and his party has been busy trying to whip up support . we call it the national service because it's the place where the youth of our country and the nation meet one another where they get to know the military service on the one hand and civil and gauge meant on the other it's where one gives his time to the nation and to society. but what about the age range it will cover all age ranges both boys and girls will take part in the service will be obligatory so what's the reaction been well polls three years ago was suggested that eighty per cent of people were in favor of the move but you know that's dwindled to a little more than half charlotte didn't see our people in paris what they know i think. do you think. you're ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army. i think there are many ways country and that

russian athletes from competing ever again then your court says no the sanctions must be lifted but then n.p.r. and chang cass rejects the appeals so i thought that the sanctions were about competing in the first place how is that possible maybe to summarize this without being too legalistic we call the first case the sochi case and the second is the case such a case was a disciplinary case initiated by the international olympic committee versus many athletes many russian athletes and we had that case that we heard in geneva two weeks before the start of the games involving thirty nine russian athletes. this was a totally unusual case i think in the history of cast because it was not a classic doping case where you have a positive test by an athlete in the athlete has to establish his innocence here it was the national olympic committee which had to prove to establish the guilt of these athletes so it had to show evidence and we decided i mean the cast determined that on eleven cases there was sufficient evidence to confirm that there was an anti-doping rule violation but for twenty eight case

that was announced after the country's officials met with south korean diplomats at the games finale n.p.r. in china but not everyone was happy to see the north korean delegation europe. protests on a side korean border town against the visit scuffles also broke out between some protesters and the police independent china specialist through line to liz about the controversies that could shadow any north korea u.s. talks. spiral sentients a concern of course the united states want to trump up the sanctions and use military coercion as is what and i mean you're solving international issues it depends on what kind of a deal the united states. struck with a lot career with the united states was the one that north koreans to abandon all its nuclear arsenal abandon all its capabilities to develop nuclear weapons and long distance the liberals as well and that's something which i don't think a lot of korea would necessarily accept that cannot be struck then we're back to square one and back to confrontation. but the only other hand it's quite possible that some agreement may be reached. the unite

here we have a train go artsy n.p.r. . still to come on the week the u.s. joins bait over foreign i still find his returning to their home countries that's after this break. looking at value surveys russians aren't so different from the european neighbors when it comes to individual rights and freedoms however they do have a very low tolerance for uncertainty in politics that translates into a strong electoral advantage for the incumbent making power transitions rare and precarious what would it take for russians to stop playing it safe politically. is a way to practice is the oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere the settler colonialism the theft of our land and. maybe we. can all do the stating things then there are many years of doing of course the gun calls and uprising. welcome back to the program in france intelligence sources say sixty seven of the two thousand also french people that joined islamic state in the middle east came from the same paris suburb charlotte chapel that. a short train ride from paris is t

bob schwartz is a project manager manager of oregon's department of environmental quality had told n.p.r. that while drinking water in the area is fine that the concentrations that we found of benzene was eighteen hundred parts per billion which is approximately ten times higher than a screening level for what we would concern us what would concern us for animals living in a wetland so it's horrible for the environment and this is a positive story because this is this is people stepping up and saying we don't want this and those are put down this a good happy story that way yeah of course you're going to have people who are going to complain about it because well of course because you know we're breeding just grooming jobs like look at melvin who are energy you know good because they got to get on the tip of like well no harm. thing we're big oil we don't do anything bad. and look at all these jobs that we could bring like that and tried to sell people three hundred twenty full time jobs during the terminal construction which is one time all the jobs going to building one hundred seventy

call in the high wall as we remember of course here n.p.r. and chang as a result of the russian doping scandal the competitors from that country had to abide by a long list of restrictions they were not allowed to be called team russia we saw very strange things like the athletes having to hike the name rush with tape on their backpacks when fans came up to them and asked for some photos they had to say no because if a russian flag pattern had made it into the take sure then they could have been disqualified many things like that but the hope for the athletes was at least that they could take the russian flag to the closing ceremony here and young chang it was up to the international olympic committee's executive board but they said no and we spoke to you gain image of a diva who won two silver medals at these winter olympics in figure skating and then she was present at the i.o.c. meeting on behalf of all the russian athletes trying to convince international olympic officials that they deserved to carry their flag at the closing ceremony. if

you know we have a train go artsy n.p.r. sharing despite it all over seas being good spirits don't they not so hot though for our next story for football thousands of french football fans rampage through the spanish capital on wednesday head to the european championship match between paris and the real madrid. french found set off flares and fireworks close their opponent's home stadium the match was judged high risks a riot police were mobilized and mounted police escorted supporters to the venue that much ended with a three one win for the whole team. is growing concern among the jewish community in germany after more than fourteen hundred anti semitic crimes were registered there last year there's also been a wave of anti semitic demonstrations too with protestors burning israeli flags and shouting anti jewish slogans. the german government says it is addressing the problem of trying to at least last month it launched a special commission to monitor anti jewish incidents in years of appeals from the jewish community to ra