Polish you clear weapons nobel judges chose i can theres the risk of atomic warfare breaking out rises for the first time in a generation also coming up catalonia government says its president carlos wisdom on will address the Regional Parliament on tuesday thats after spains highest court barred catalan lawmakers from meeting on monday to debate the regions independence. Im sumi so must come to good to have you with us a comedian also has awarded the two thousand and seventeen Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons also known as i can the Nobel Committee weighed up nominations for two hundred fifteen individuals and one hundred three organizations and in the end they chose icann for reviving efforts to prohibit Nuclear Weapons at a time of renewed global tensions. Price is a tribute to everyone everybody working for disarmament we have. Focused on i can because we feel the norwegian Nobel Committee that they have taken a leading role in really vice
They will probably already promised to do seems to me pretty commonsensical thing to go for and in practical terms do you think this award for i can well boost to now or give new impetus to these efforts internationally to achieve a nuclear ban yes i do think so i dont know that this will be the thing which finally generates success for that for them and fought for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it that the first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a Nuclear Free World so that no its already achieving that effect of greater coverage and greater consciousness. Dan smith a director of the Stockholm International Peace Research institute thank you very much for joining us thank you my pleasure. Well on social media lots of reactions to the announcement already a director general with the European Commission stefano months or v. C. Writes congratulations i c
Polish you play with. Nobel judges chose i can as the risk of atomic war for breaking out rises for the first time in a generation. Also coming up catalonia scuppered its president carlos wisdom on will address the Regional Parliament on tuesday thats after spains highest court barred catalan lawmakers from meeting on monday to debate the regions independence. Im sumi some misconduct to have you with us a committee and also has awarded the two thousand and seventeen Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons also known as i can the Nobel Committee weighed up nominations for two hundred fifteen individuals and one hundred three organizations in the end they chose icann for reviving efforts to prohibit Nuclear Weapons at a time of renewed global tensions. Price is a tribute to everyone everybody working for disarmament we have focused on the i can because we feel the norwegian Nobel Committee that they have taken a leading role in really vice tonight seein
Alarms all rommany watching aljazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up new hope that a decade long dispute has come to an end rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah signed a reconciliation deal. The kenyan government bans protests as it decides what will happen next to its president ial rerun. Also spain celebrates its national day as the political crisis deepens over the future of the region of catalonia. Out of the u. S. And the United States has sent a notice to unesco saying it will withdraw from the key u. N. Cultural agency says americas decision to end its. The ship is a loss to the u. N. Family and multilateralism and the u. S. State Department Says washington is concerned with mounting costs lack of reforms that has accused the organization of anti israel bias the paris based cultural scientific and Educational Organization was established after World War Two for more on this lets go straight over to mike hanna whos in new york how much of a blow is this to
This is day w is live from the United States takes another step away from diplomacy on its International Policy the state Department Confirms that america is withdrawing from you next go to the United Nations Cultural Agency the u. S. Says theyll going to say she needs fundamental reform and hes biased against israel. Now the move comes as palestinian factions hamas and fatah signed a reconciliation day and after a decade long split and told to egypt hamas says it will hand control of the gaza strip back to fatah well bring you reaction from israel from jerusalem and to brussels delivers a blow to the u. K. A u. S. President go say to michelle body and says talks are deadlocked on the death but will not ask next weeks e. U. Summit to begin discussions on a future relationship with britain. Im phil go welcome to the program in the last hour or so the United States has announced that it is to withdraw from unesco the uns Cultural Organization the state Department Said the decision was du