Military doc i dont think i dont. Ok listen i like the doctrine im not convinced however that it would always guide russian behavior i want to get back to the world youre describing where the United States and russia are both very clear that they dont feel each other as adversaries and they dont envision needing these weapons against believing that thats the world we should be reading that report is very adversarial i mean almost every few paragraphs its very adversarial i mean im sorry michael but it was directed against the United States in china ok ten seconds before we go to the break go ahead michael. It was directed against russia and china youre right and i agree that its a unfortunate state but i think it was brought about brought upon largely by perceived russian aggressiveness in this domain whether you agree with that perception or not thats what ok well so were going to go to a break here but i want to point out to our viewers that it was in russia that overthrew the legitimately elected government in kiev in february two thousand and fourteen after a short break well continue our discussion on the Nuclear Posture review stay with. The concepts. To perform. Myself today. In the home of. This countrys most. So well see. Getting. What. Was it he could with us the logic that yes good morning again to me she. Had to finish in a couple hundred twenty p. S. K. I mean her new job. Join me every photo stream on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. You know if you noticed even paying more attention to. The north Korean Nuclear issue i personally believe the u. S. Coming can come up with the solutions but i think the u. S. Has. No solutions but i have talked to us from paying more attention to peaceful solution to the north Korean Nuclear problem. Welcome back across like were all things are considered im peter a belter amount of discussing the Nuclear Posture review. Ok kevin id like to point out to our viewers you know this is a very heated here but this is a very important topic of course michael did write something in usa today but its gotten very little coverage in on the cable stations which i think is really an indication of just how. These kind of issues were taken out away from the Public Square because i think people should be talking about these things or having said that kevin it seems to me that there are some lessons being on learned here and we call that mad mass destruction and it seems to me the u. S. Has an learning that all the Major Nuclear powers all understand that you know thats probably why they havent been used ok since the first used by the United States at the end of the Second World War it seems to me the u. S. Reading this past year is moving away from that again thinking the thinkable go ahead kaput. Well these are all weapons and here we are in the era of trump where you know christmas of two thousand and sixteen trump says make a present ski flippantly let it be an arms race so you know no lessons are learned from history here its fascinating how this goes back to World War Two if you look at a book like ghar out peru it says the decision to use the atomic bomb a big part of the american decision to use atomic weapons in japan in august one thousand nine hundred five was to tell the soviet union where to get off that the United States was in charge little did the us know that the soviets were just four years away from their own Nuclear Weapon because they had infiltrated the Manhattan Project at los alamos and montreal they had spies everywhere getting that information and then with the Hydrogen Bomb it was an even quicker turnaround between the americans and the russians we have to get over this american russian chinese thing these are on the side of weapons we can wipe out our species as dan ellsberg warned in his book were talking about in the late one nine hundred fifty s. The ability to kill six hundred Million People in a short period of time those of the old days were now talking about the ability to wipe out in full Scale Nuclear war many billions of people very quickly and with Nuclear Winter that may take care of the rest of the human population so if we want to survive as a species we have to abolish these weapons its as simple as that well i mean the United States is a member of the nonproliferation treaty and it is obligated to do that again thats not mentioned in the report least that i didnt see it a deal in let me let me go to you here i think theres something much broader going on here and i think this posture is really all about how the United States sees its you know polar moment with the end of the cold war shrinking that window is getting its closing and i think it is lashing out its threatening its saying that the that russia and china revisionist powers i have a hard time believing that both countries want to go back to the basic principles of the. Did nations charter ok as i mentioned before the end of the program the United States trips around the world overturning governments involved in seven different wars without any kind of United Nations mandate and they say that russia and china are revisionist powers i mean that is like the pot calling the kettle black go ahead adrian london. This is this is simple. Double speak from america. Im not talking about American People i mean i have Many American friends. Who are. Intelligent people when it comes to. The upper echelons of of american political sphere. Get the sense and feeling that they are behaving like a spoiled brat who is dissatisfied with the fact that world is no longer looking towards them with the emphasis as it was before. The attacks on russia today with the attacks on russia as a whole as a. Teen or you know china it is emphasizing it is insecurity that. Its values or its point of view can be a challenge and this is whole thing about move to polarity that you and i can you know go to the t. V. Screen or whatever go to any country and get the source for ourselves to know the news and then assess them according to our knowledge and intellectual abilities but america doesnt want that and its you know its funny. To me as a grotesque as a person who was brought up in poland. Knowing Radio Free EuropeRadio Liberty was the radio that you know our my grandparents or my you know my my parents were listening you know with their friends in some places. Far away from the by the communist island. That we have today i lived in poland in the one nine hundred eighty s. I remember all of that had to very very clearly. Only remember that from from my view you know from my familys you know stories that you know they were gathering in some you know this place is going to be not all right the police will not get distracted here michael let me go to you i mean do you see any circumstances were the resort to nucular weapons over the resort to nucular weapons over some islands in the South China Sea or poland i mean or ukraine excuse me no i dont however i can let me say one thing to frame a little bit of where this is coming from i understand why people who see donald trump and some of his behavior and some of his rhetoric would think of this in one way i want to underscore it was secretary of defense jim battles of all of this document obviously it was we all know were not going the topic to donald ok well about donald trump its not about because the im going to be very. My go go you are going to have a very long go ahead you are very long on your comment on my head my comment is secretary of defense jim bad as is a very thoughtful guy and hes not going to use or recommend the use of Nuclear Weapons cavalierly and he does perceive a strong russian assertiveness in the Nuclear Government ok he thinks he might go back again ok they dont want to because they. Hang on here michael you know its madness is madness bluffing is just a bluff then. Is this whole document a bluff to scare people its partly it was that no but its partly psychological it is partly to point out to russia that if theyre going to be threatening with exercises with buzzing aircraft with doctrines or concepts on who to dion who has border and respond who is on the order michael americas border on that on the eastern seaboard of california is out that is not the border youre talking about you know my views on ok really i mean you know my views on nato expansion i think its gone far enough i agree with your concern that we need a new Security Architecture for Eastern Europe i hear your point on that issue but nonetheless its russia thats buzzing nato airplanes thats attack it whether its nato arab league perceives it and thats what i was saying russias borders you know if the russian planes had that on the same base as a regular basis over new york what do you think the response would be outrage ok weve already had that kevin let me go to you here is there going to be a new arms race here because you know what the u. S. This kind of document is what the third report this year about its posture its all military its all force its all about head gemini ok it is and you know because of the hostility that comes out of washington towards beijing towards a moscow they will react with a what is a u. S. One hundred an arms race then theyll get one ok what good does that do for the world go ahead kevin right it will be an arms race trump said let it be an arms race lets spend a trillion three or more you know look how close we came you mentioned the buzzing of borders look at the cuban missile crisis if not for vassily off on a soviet sub voting against launch of a nuclear tipped torpedo that the u. S. Did not even know was there we we could have wiped out the human race in october of one nine hundred sixty two the man who saved the world it happened again in one thousand nine hundred three with stanislav. A soviet Nuclear Commander who refused. Believe the glitch in the computer that mistook a sunrise for a Nuclear Watch by the United States we have played with fire for seventy five years with these Nuclear Weapons and if we continue to do this its going to be the end of our species thats what beatrice fan of the International Campaign for the abolition of Nuclear Weapons warned just a couple months ago at the nobel prize ceremony we either abolish these weapons or they will abolish us thats whats at stake here. One of the things that if we get these lower grade weapons dont you think thats going to entice countries for example south korea japan saudi arabia i mean if you can play with little nukes ok thats not so bad ok i mean it what it is it normalizes Nuclear Weapons for a second tier powers i mean how does that make the world safer i cant understand it i mean maybe brazil and you know argentina will get in the axe to i mean the United States has said a positive precedent the only country in the world to ever use Nuclear Weapons against a civilian population a country that didnt have those weapons they were going backwards go ahead. I mean. That recent move america just literally. In the food because. It opened the opportunities for other countries to you know to say look if the americans are grading themselves what about us theres no you know the safety of any more talking about you know north korea and attacking north korea were to me what doesnt mean many nukes it is still a nuke is a still Nuclear Weapon so it still harms people who are over there so are i will never you know before this motion im strongly against using a any type of Nuclear Weapons because as youve mentioned you know we were less and i mean you know my generation had the lesson from the hiroshima nagasaki so i dont want to see people in the career my contemporaries being you know so much devastated as the japanese where. Time so i dont believe you know its posing one serious question if america wants to lead the world what does it says there moves the recent move moves and you know the actions. Let me jump in here i want to be fair i want to give michael the last word here michael you know maybe maybe the Silver Lining in all this is that maybe russia china and the United States can actually sit down and maybe start thinking about a new architecture for the use of these weapons may be going head michael. Yeah i hope so peter im hopeful that were actually at the worst of it now or maybe even coming out of it and i do agree with president trumps inherent instinct that u. S. Russia relations should not be so bad and that we need a new approach unfortunately as you know were still bogged down in the twenty six thousand Election Debate here so its sort of impossible the United States right now to move beyond that at the moment but i am hopeful that were going to be able to move out of that on the tactical on the issue of the low yield. Nuclear weapon i think youre exactly right peter earlier when you said there really is no meaningful distinction we shouldnt think these weapons are somehow more usable again if i want to interpret for you what i believe the pentagon views as the reason for doing this they see that russia has a lot of tactical Nuclear Weapons they dont want russia to get the sense that somehow only russia can engage in this kind of coercive activity and therefore i want to push back on that on a hopeful that once youve got it can move on that last point there we have run out of time gentlemen many thanks to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here see you next time and remember. Despite. The soviet union you know. This was not about the use of those. With. The. We were the first some of you to limp with nine hundred fifty two with some good seeds of a concentration camp prisoners and from. There if youre sure you know much. More than one whom. You do what youre going to do put in your. Ear. Guys you can we. The bond market will not crash and this time it will continue yields a go even lower and negative yield on various bonds will increase from the multi trillion dollars what the negative yielding sovereign debt now to even more multi multi multi killing dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and were going to go down the rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells like what the kind of cash withdrawal in places like china and west the sell off in all these various markets and what the oil prices climbing higher in gold looking better that weve got here an Old Fashioned reverse up. In america a College Degree requires a great deal. Paying a decades long debt. Studying so hard it requires drugs. Going through humiliation to enter an elite society. And parching to death sometimes quite literally. Want other true colors of universities in the us. Thank. A glittering Opening Ceremony heralds the start of the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics in south korea but as people in pyongyang celebrate the event protesters take to the streets and it is the participation of the North Koreans and they gained. Was. Over dozens of russian athletes the opening of the games is overshadowed by fridays decision of the court of arbitration for sport at the last moment caf dismissed their appeals against a doping related ban. Most and probably faced one of the biggest urban warfare since World War Two unicefs representative in iraq speaks to r. T. As the humanitarian group raises the alarm over three quarters of a million children struggling to get basic medical services in the city of mosul seven months after the u. S. Led coalitions a victory over islamic state. A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International broadcasting to you live from moscow and looking at. All the Winter Olympics twenty eighteen have now officially started with the Opening Ceremony in south koreas young china just under way nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries took part in the Opening Ceremony of the fifty third winter games our correspondent has more from the event. Via lympics stadium n. P. N. Chang is flashing lights ive heard it roar a few times it is happening at the Opening Ceremony of the winter Olympic Games twenty saying but to this Opening Ceremony is special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then the oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we dont see them wash and black out and a little bit Opening Ceremony in the one nine hundred ninety two back then the athletes from the former soviet republics are marching under the i. O. C. Flag after the collapse of the soviet union i can tell you that most people dont have that feeling around me or three or four perhaps the only reason why theyre a little bit disappointed is that theyre not inside that arena but believe it or not on just meters away from where im standing right now locals are protesting instead of watching the Opening Ceremony of the olympics being glued to their t. V. And just a couple of hours ago i saw punches flags being burned and pepper spray being used by police. Just. Just hours before the Opening Ceremony protests have erupted outside the Olympic Stadium as you can see this group of people thats carrying american and israeli flags south korean flags as well are protesting against the invitation of the north korean team to the young chang a limping. So it looks like the same for mark trying to use the Opening Ceremony to deliver their message to countries south korea and north korea we didnt make we are not to cater. To the regime from the already im. Trying right. Now at the very same time on the other side of the street there is a rival protests a much smaller one but the slogans there are completely different it says against war for peace young to go home so these people it looks like theyre in favor of the steps that the governments of north and south korea have made to make sure that something is happening between the two countries during the Winter Olympics and young chang the number of Police Officers is growing so is the number of protesters these people are definitely going to stay here during the opening ceremonies so this is going to be the background of the opening of young chang twenty eight conflict over the Korean Peninsula is casting a shadow over the gangs and its not only activists clashing of the crisis but politicians as well. Its cruel to put little. Into. Todays military parade will show off the powerful status of the democratic peoples republic of korea as long as hostile policies from the us continue mission of the Korean Peoples Army can never change. The United States of america will for you to stand shoulder to shoulder in our effort to bring back from the pressures to bear on north korea until that comes when the finally and permanent in your reversible abandon their nuclear and Ballistic Missile and. The. North Korean Leader kim jong un sister arrived in south korea on friday to attend the Opening Ceremony top south korean officials greeted her at the at port vive dont have Brothers Private jet and north korea kim jong is responsible for propaganda and agitation shes the first member as north koreas leading family visit to. Is it the south since the one nine hundred fifty five meanwhile the south korean president shook hands with north korea as a ceremonial head as a at a pre Opening Ceremony reception athletes from the two koreas are marching together under a single flag at the Opening Ceremony which is now under way that decision was reached a breakthrough talks initiated by the north early last month earlier a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a ban preventing them from competing in the Winter Olympics failed the court of arbitration for sport secretary general announced the ruling with just hours to go before the games got underway in south korea the athletes lawyers have branded the decision sanctions in disguise just arbitrators of constitute the process. To establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete as olympic athletes from russia could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision. Applicants did not demonstrate that the manner in which two special Commission System by the i. O. C. Was carried out in a discriminatory arbitrary or unfair minutes earlier i discussed the courts decision with r. T. Daniel hawkings reaction from the i. O. C. In water certainly would have been positive they would perhaps have viewed this as a victory for sport as justice served against doping if you will from those of appeal from the laws of course perhaps when one of surprise those forty seven russian athletes and coaches have appealed based on the grounds that a large part of the group initially didnt face any sanctions from the i. O. C. Whatsoever and another part of the group of course did receive bias had their medals their awards from sochi two hundred fourteen taken away but those were subsequently overturned because of lack of evidence by that cast this isnt just about a week or so ten days ago the coach is representing the athletes of course pulled no punches in criticizing this cast decision to take a listen i dont know what to say im really disappointed i cant understand the cast decision first they cleared the athletes and now they see sorry you cant go to the olympics this is some kind of madness its terrible not just for athletes but for all of International Sport did i expect kass to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas buck in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after rule in our favor he was literally threatening the court he was almost seeing he would dissolve the court if it route again in favor of russian athletes who have been claims from the head coach of russias news team that the i. O. C. Was pressuring kathe in this decision is that the case that the i. O. C. President thomas spock was certainly scathing about the decision when that came through it would have been viewed very much as a decision on the mind of the i. O. C. It or thirty and also very much put a spoke in the wheel of water the investigation and undermining also the credibility of the Mclaren Report houses a decision is a. Extremely disappointing and surprising for. The i. O. C. We would never have expected these these a decision shows so the virtue and the need for reform in know the internal structure of couse a lot more thought sparks reported out of original cast role in which effectively upheld the principle of innocent until Proven Guilty saying that there was insufficient evidence that those russian athletes had been doping this was the original cast or in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish thats an antidoping rule violation it was committee