Today im in oslo to meet the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize and this year, the award goes to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Two women from very different generations who have worked tirelessly for nuclear disarmament. They believe they have embarked on a campaign which will ultimately lead to the elimination of all the worlds Nuclear Weapons. But are they changemakers or wishful thinkers . Beatrice fihn and Setsuko Thurlow, many congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, welcome to hardtalk. I want to begin by asking both of you how you felt when you heard this news is that you had won the Nobel Peace Prize. You are the executive director of ican, the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Did you expect it . Thank you for having me here. We did not expect it at all. We have been so preoccupied with the treaty and having it concluded in the summer. The treaty to prohibit Nuclear Weapons which got so many nations around the world t
Busiest bus station as an isolated attempt at a terrorist attack. The suspect is a young bangladeshi who moved to the us in 2011 with his family. President trump has urged congress to act against whats known as chain migration, which allows extended family to join people already in the us. In a statement, the president said america must fix what he called its lax immigration system, which he claimed allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access the country. Those convicted of acts of terror, he suggested, deserve the strongest penalty allowed by law, including the death penalty. Nick bryant reports. 7 20am in the morning, the height of the rush hour, and Security Camera footage of an underpass at new yorks busiest bus terminal. This low tech bomb was detonated deliberately, in the hope of killing monday morning commuters. The failed suicide bomber had strapped the home made device to his body with velcro, but he was the only person it seriously injured. Coming at
Thats it. Thank you very much for coming. Recently, a hearing held on the increase of number of unwanted phone calls and scams aimed at Senior Citizens despite laws allowing people to opt out of receiving marketing calls. We heard from someone who was a victim of one of these phone scams as well as a federal trade Commission Top regulator and a Computer Science and networking specialist. You can watch the hearing at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time and well take your phone calls and questions immediately after. Over on cspan. The cspans city tour visits sites across the country to hear from authors and Civic Leaders every weekend on cspan 2s book tv. And American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress on its summer recess, you can find the cities tour on cspan every day at 6 00 eastern. Today, the literary life of lincoln, nebraska, including the letters of novelist, biography of chief standing bear, and a book about the removal of native American Children from their homes. That st
Anger in madrid as demonstrators take to the streets in protest against sunday succession referendum in catalonia. If anybody out there is listening to us. We are dying. Puerto rico urges the u. S. To speed up pay it has it struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria. And we have a special report on a Nigerian Army crackdown on the oil pirates who are raiding refineries across the niger delta. And far as small have all the days sporting including unbeaten Manchester United pile on the misery for Crystal Palace beating them for a nail in the English Premier League. The. Spains government is cracking down on the bounce a session votes in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy its were born volunteers at polling stations they could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand Dollars Police have already begun deploying ahead of the ballots and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as Polling Centers offices say they will remove voters in the
That we note is not on saddam request and we will trigger article one five five spains government announces plans to strip catalonia off its autonomy and take control of the region. Youre watching aljazeera life from a headquarters in doha im dreading obligato also ahead two days after at least eighty people were killed and eastern afghanistan the taliban takes credit for yet another attack pakistans former Prime Minister nawaz sharif his daughter and son in law all indicted for corruption. A Us University prepares to host the White Supremacists amid growing racial tensions in the country. Hello in the past few hours the council on government has ignored a deadline for madrid to. Its plans for a session its been three weeks since the autonomous region voted in favor of independence during a highly controversial referendum well since the latest deadline passed spains government says it will now invoke article one fifty five if its constitution so effectively suspending catalonia as poli