we will link to your piece in the hill, "are russia and nato trying to wreck the npt?"zia mian, co-director of the program on science and global security at princeton university. coming up, we look at why the american right is embracing hungary's authoritarian leader viktor orbÁn, who is addressing cpac today, the conservative political action conference which is taking place in dallas, texas. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "as the world turns" by jessica pratt. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. donald trump has welcomed hungary's president viktor orbÁn to his golclub in bedminster, new jersey, ahead of the conservative political action conference, or cpac, which opens today in dallas, texas. trump is delivering closing remarks saturday. orbÁn is speaking today. cpac's warm welcome of orbÁn comes just days after he delivered a racist speech in romania criticizing what he called race mixing in other european countries. >> there's a world in which european peoples are mixed together with those arr

this has to do with iran complying with the npt. that is a fundamental legal obligation separate from a political agreement. so we risk that iran will not explain what he was doing. we risk not being able to figure out if they have ongoing activities today. >> ok, thank you very much. rob, let's turn to you next. let's get your analysis and what you think the biden administration is doing -- let me put it to you this way, i think that andrea mentioned being very careful not to go beyond the facts. she said that the european union made this proposal to me cap the ie eight. -- since the proposal was put forward, we have not heard anything from washington that there is discomfort with this. what do you think is happening here? we have had the step taken by the european union. then we have salman rushdie attacked by a man who seems to be at least inspired by the teachings of the ayatollah khomeini and the calls against salman rushdie. we have had attacks on -- plots against the number of americans by the iranian regime. just as we are g

no first use of nuclear weapons and they are divided over how to define the relationship between the npt and the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. another point of contention with the safety of the nuclear power plant in ukraine, russian forces seized in march wi schelling continue around it. the current draft urging russia to return control of the plant to ukrainian authorities, russia calls the document unacceptable. the conference president will present a revised version of the document with delegates failing to adopt the final document in the previous review conference seven years ago. advocates fear a similar failure could delay global nuclear disarmament efforts, the conference will end on friday. >>> a senior member of the taiwan main opposition party has met with a top official in cha agreeing that both sides need to de-escalate tensions weeks after beijing held military drills in the taiwan strait. the vice chairman of the taiwanese nationalist party, he met with the head of china's association for relations across the taiwan stit. they say that concerns were conveye

we ought to remember that it is north korea that violated the npt, the non—proliferation treaty, it iswe canjust the world community in its actions. if we can just take a step back and look at what these drills mean for the right wider region, how do you see beijing responding to this? china has complained about these exercises for a very long time. china has benefited from north korea being the front man, upfront and complaining very loudly. but, china has certainly been very concerned, and in many ways that is what china, north korea and russia, which during the cold war was a formal ally of north korea and the soviet union, and now once again it looks like those three powers, essentially communist powers of china and certainly the north koreans, are allied, and they will gang up on this kind of topic and that, seeing the us as a threat. the former pakistani prime minister, imran khan is being investigated under the anti—terrorism act. the authorities say he has threatened police and justice officials. it follows a speech by mr khan during a rally, accusing the police of torturing a

i'll move to deny the appeal and up hold the npts of violation decision on the base it was properly issued. >> we did not er in this discussion and that the decision s decision was proper? >> yes. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner chang. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> that passes 5-0. >> thank you everybody. appreciate your patience. ♪♪ >> call the meeting to orders welcome to the tuesday, august 16th, 2022 hybrid in person and virtual meeting of the entertainment commission i'm ben bleiman the commission president. >> this meeting is in hybrid format in city hall room 416 broadcasts on sfgov.org and can call in 669-900-6833 id: 812 2315 5123. before we begin we would like to reminds all present in attending the meeting in person today that all health and safety protocols adhered to at all time it is we appreciate your cooperation with the rules and requirements in the interest of everyone's health and safety. hand sanitize are stations are throughout the build pregnant each elevator and masks are available upon request at any city hall entrances. we we

i'll move to deny the appeal and up hold the npts of violation decision on the base it was properly issued>> we did not er in this discussion and that the decision s decision was proper? >> yes. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner chang. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> that passes 5-0. >> thank you everybody. appreciate your patience. ♪♪