communities start to assess the damage. plus, it is the final weekend before election day. yes, it s finally here. with three days to go, candidates making their final pitch and big name surrogates on the trail trying to pick up last-minute voters. yet another provocation by kim jong-un. south korea saying four more missiles have been fired overnight. we have the latest on these escalating tensions. and soon it will be legal to take psychedelic drugs in oregon. could more states follow suit? good morning, everyone. thank you so much for joining us on this saturday, november 5th. hi, boris. good morning, amara. great to be with you, as always. we have a lot to get to. we start with severe weather this morning. a string of tornados ripping through three states, causing widespread damage and major power outages. at least 18 tornados were reported between texas, oklahoma, and arkansas. authorities are still trying to figure out the extent of damages and injuries as entire
joining us now to share his perspective is gordon chang. great to see you. as always, thank you for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. what is kim jong-un trying to accomplish here? first of all, it needs to validate its missile designs. it had the long moratorium. it wants to know if new designs work. second of all, they would like to show their customers their missiles work. that would primarily be a run. they want to stop the joint exercises now going on or just ended a few hours ago. even though north korea continues its large-scale exercises. and the fourth thing would be they would like to give the new south korean president a hard time. so you put all those together,
filled at the factory where it was produced. in the prior missile designs, feeling would have to take place shortly before launch so in a battle situation you can imagine an adversary could try to destroy the missiles before they are launched, this advancement in this sense of a fuel ampoule could actually be significant, more significant in terms of survivability of the north korean missiles in the hypersonic aspect. so this is a case where focusing on the hypersonic facet of the test may distract from more important issues that the programme has made possibly quite significant advances, if these reports are true. thank ou for these reports are true. thank you for explaining these reports are true. thank you for explaining that. - that is a researcher in nuclear security at stamford. you are with bbc. still to come, lost and found, a previously unreleased audiotape ofjohn lennon goes under the hammer.
reagan. the inf treaty was signed more than 30 years ago, a mayor achievement in arms control. after world war ii, they raced to advance missile designs that outproduced each other. now in the mid 1970s, the sow y soviets unveiled the ss 20. it could hit targets to northern alaska. they were pursuing arms control negotiations while deploying their own missiles in western europe. talks continued through the decade until the treaty was signed in 1987. it bound the united states and the soviet union to have their range rockets, lawneuncherlaunc
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