as you say that, you look at setsuko.or you, this is the most extraordinary, personal story as well because you sit with me today as a survivor of hiroshima. you were there in 1945. for you, the news that the nobel committee had decided to recognise the work of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, what did it mean to you? i just couldn't believe it, that first moment. i was numb, i think. i pinched myself. is it real? but the people around me were screaming with joy. so it must be true. but it took me for days before i really felt like i actually won. i think we have to start this interview as it so remarkable for me to sit with you. we have to start by having you reflect on the memories you hold of hiroshima 1945 because, in a sense, everything about the campaign today is about the reality of what nuclear weapons do. so if you would take me back to that day in the summer of ‘45. i was a 13—year—old grade 7 student in a girls school. i was at the army headquarters that morning instead of classroom becaus

a medal and a one million dollars cash prize but she won't be alone she'll be joined on stage by setsuko his campaign for seven decades against nuclear weapons she was just thirteen when the united states dropped a bomb on her city in one thousand nine hundred forty five together they will give the nobel lecture celebrating a u.n. treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons which is largely thanks to icann and campaigning efforts it will so lay out their long term goals and how to achieve nuclear disarmament. the questions are. being too idealistic the nine nations that hold nuclear weapons will never agree to sign up to this nuclear treaty but says this is not about bringing them to the table this is about changing the status quo making it more uncomfortable for them to have these nuclear arsenals and it is a long term game they are very aware of that this prize will bring much needed public city around the issue of nuclear weapons and help educate the public about the theory of nuclear deterrent which has gone unchallenged for so many decades. well ahead of the ceremony we've been exploring the

accepting the awarard sunday wee hiroshima nuclear bombing survivor setsuko thurlow and ican executive director beatrice fihn, who in her acceptance speech alluded to the threat of nuclear war posed by president donald trump. >> the story of nuclear weaeapos wiwill have an ending. and it is up to us to decide what that ending will be. will it be the end o of nuclear weapons? or will it be the end of us? one of thehese things will hapa. the only rational l course off action iss to cease living under the conditions were our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away. beatricefihn accepting the award. to see our interview withthurlow, you can go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in alabama, where democrat doug jones and republican roy moore are locked in a tight and increasingly controversial race to fill l the alabama senatete t left vacant by attorney general jeff sessions. a democrat hasn't won a u.s. the election isa democrat hasn't won a u.s. t

setsuko thurlow was living in hiroshima when the u.s. air force dropped a nuclear bomb on her hometown in one nine hundred forty five my name is sets course i was born and raised in hiroshima at the age of thirteen i experienced the atomic bombing in hiroshima in those days japan was losing badly in the war so ordered able bodied people were sent to the front line and we will use a cheap labor at eight o'clock we started the morning assembly major and i gave us the pep talk do your very best we said yes so we will and at that moment i saw the bluish white last one i had again the consciousness i found myself in under the collapsed building in the thought of darkness and. i knew i was facing death as my eyes adjusted i started seeing some dark of jets moving very slowly and i found them to be the procession of human beings but it looked like the process of course i think since that experience i could look up my life and i could see how to live the rest. this inhumane thing should never ever happen they get this became the model of the sur

got a standing ovation for her speech and then when the woman who also accepted the award with her setsuko thurlow the survivor of the hiroshima bombing stood up and recounted her tale of tragedy there were many tears in the audience so incredibly moving moving ceremony and there was lots more to come i think you made an interesting point earlier when we spoke charlie about the sort of feeling that i can maybe as being a bit idealistic and that these countries they're not going to suddenly give up their nuclear weapons. well i think in response that i would say well we are realistic we never expected those nine nations or nato members to sign the treaty a couple of months ago that would have been beyond their wildest dreams and they don't think that this prize either will change their minds the idea is to start changing the perception of nuclear weapons to start making these countries feel uncomfortable about the possession of nuclear arsenals to attach a stigma to them much like happened with the international campaign against landmines and that's a group that won the nobel prize here to

just me the executive director of i can fit to spin going up to accept the award show also joined by setsuko. she's a woman whose campaign for seven decades against nuclear weapons and she is a survivor of the bombing of hiroshima in one thousand nine hundred forty five so she will probably speak about her experiences as a thirteen year old in that city when eight hundred thousand people were killed in . kerry's losing our link there with charlie if you can still hear me unfortunate we have lost our picture with you try to come back here in a second so these live pictures as reciting the. chair of the nobel committee speaking right now and the lady dressed in white in the center of your screen that is in the executive director of i can charlie are you back with me. i can hear right we lost you carry on go for it as i was saying. as i say so they will they will together they are going to give out this nobel lecture which will be will cost around the world and i'm going to celebrate the achievements of i can namely bringing about that u.n. treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons but i'll also look