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 seeing this process and they have managed in. Admirable manner to combine. A popular engagement almost becoming a Grassroots Movement the executive director of icann said the group was overjoyed at the award from the Nobel Committee its in such a important signal to everyone whos worked tirelessly for Nuclear Disarmament for since nine hundred forty five. Its a huge tribute to the survivors of nuclear nations. In japan and also the nuclear test victims in martial law in the. United states around the world. So its a really an issue that doesnt get enough attention. And i think that this crisis just really make it worth all of those hours and. The years that people have spent working on this. Well lets get some reaction to the announcement with dan smith hes the director of the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research institute dan thank you for joining us your first thoughts when you heard i can one. I think its a very appropriate choice i really do i was thinking before him. Hopes that the committee it would decide to direct attention towards their weapons issue because it has been rising up the political agenda of this year in a way that we havent seen for decades really because people are beginning to feel where of increasing nuclear risk and i think that they have done it Look Committee that is have done it rather cleverly by pointing to a groove to a campaign which is imagining a Nuclear Free World and that imagining an alternative to the risks that we see today so i think i think going to be congratulated on their choice and i can is to be congratulated as a very worthy recipient its dan i can as a campaign is it have the imagining a Nuclear Free World at the same time none of the nine known Nuclear Powers have signed up to a Nuclear Weapons ban in that sense what has this organization achieved. Well i think first of all over cheve the Nuclear Weapons ban is there on the political agenda and its true as you say that none of the nine Nuclear Weapon states nor many of those are through example the nato states have not signed up to it but over one hundred twenty governments worldwide have indicated their support for the treaty when it was drafted and theyre now considering their signatures and their benchmark adherence to the treaty so i think that is a pretty big shift and i think whats worth emphasizing is that the the campaign and the ban treaty and the peace prize award are all encouraging at least five of those nine Nuclear Weapon states the. Five permanent members of the u. N. Security council to do what they have signed up to do because under article six of the nonproliferation treaty from one nine hundred seventy nearly half a century ago they are committed to achieving you can theres some and theyve gone some way towards that and there are a few Nuclear Weapons today than there were in the end of the cold war but theres still fifteen thousand warheads left in the world so theres a lot of work for those weapons states to do and encouraging governments to do what theyve all probably already promised to do seems to me pretty common sensical 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 for their campaign but i think it must push the conversation forward and give it more profile you know after all when is it. The first item on news reports around the world has been discussing the proposition to create a Nuclear Free World so that. Its already achieving that a sense of greater coverage and greater consciousness right dan smith the director of the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research institute thank you very much for joining us thank you and on social media lots of reactions to the announcement a unesco director general irina bokova called the decision a resoundingly call to Global Responsibility and stronger diplomacy for peace the nobel prize twitter account praise the winner for being the leading Civil Society actor in the effort to achieve the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons under International Law tim bright the asia pacific director of icann has responded to the award saying a great honor that we have just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two thousand and seventeen for our work to outlaw Nuclear Weapons and a possible referring to u. S. North Korea Nuclear tensions one tweeter writes lets hope future historians wont note the irony of i can winning the Nobel Peace Prize on the eve of nuclear war and lets talk more about the significance of this war and with scott lucas hes a professor of International Politics at the university of Birmingham Scott thank you very much for joining us your reaction to this announcement. Well i think i call a lot of what dance tests and that. The Nobel Peace Prize is not always for what has been achieved it is for what we hope can be achieved and this was a message of hope today that the Nobel Committee recognizing that we actually are on a bit of a downward spiral over Nuclear Weapons the north korean crisis threats to the possible nuclear deal to the nuclear deal with iran that was signed only two years ago tensions over the future of russian activity as well as existing large stockpiles that the us house and of course the fact that israel continues to have under clinton for weapons all of that is in play and i think that the committee sort of draws our attention to them but they do a second thing and they say that by recognizing i cant which is a Civil Society group they say what this just isnt a matter where you look to president s or chancellors or prime ministers that you to you know as an activist can make a difference you know you can make your voice heard you can inform yourself on this and i and i think thats laudable israel has got this does come at a time you mentioned the Iran Nuclear Deal it could be unraveling a u. S. President donald trump seems to be set to abandon this agreement lets listen to what he had to say on this last night the Iranian Regime supports terrorism and exports violence bloodshed and chaos across the middle east that is why we must put an end to irans continued aggression and Nuclear Ambitions they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement. Scott how damaging will it be if donald trump abandons this deal. Home it will be very damaging you know the fact is the disagreement has successfully contained Irans Nuclear program iran has agreed to this has complied with the agreement despite what trump has said it opens up the door to try to talk about other issues in the middle east broad and i think a word of caution here trump actually i think took a step back from withdrawing from the agreement yesterday while he said the u. S. Would decertify iranian compliance you know he effectively kicked the issue across to congress and said well you decide what to do about it why because his Senior Adviser said this is still a worthwhile deal we should not scrap it and that again is where activism like that if i can and like that of Civil Society can make a difference in keeping that message heard its got do you think the Nobel Committees announcement might weigh on washington Decision Makers minds i think very little weighs on double trumps mind other than what donald trump things but i think for those who are around him his National Security advisors i think that will take note right scott with this from the university of birmingham thank you so much for joining us on a program and more on the Nobel Peace Prize announcement and its significance on our web site www dot com now to the u. S. 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Now in spain catalan leaders have said president carlos preacher manuel addressed the Regional Parliament on tuesday this comes after Spains High Court barred cattle on lawmakers from holding a parliamentary session on monday to discuss the regions bid for independence it is unclear if the lawmakers will defy that order or earlier today in madrid catalonia as police chief and two prominent separatists were released after appearing at a Court Hearing they were under investigation for sedition in connection with the regions are independent. And with us here in studio is marie cupp rats shes a representative of the catalan Regional Government here in germany ms comforts thank you very much for joining us here on d. W. First of all this planned session that the carlsberg the most that hes planning to go ahead with this coming week on tuesday is that really the right choice after the Spanish Constitutional Court has said this meeting is illegal well the Spanish Constitutional Court is very active and they cleared a parliamentary session on monday illegal but on tuesday its illegal so it will be a regular part of a terrorist session its very surprising that as parliamentary session can be declared illegal or within the Constitutional Court so it will be a regular session and. As the president quite alone has the right to address the parliament and will he declare independence we will see that do you think thats the right step to take. Declared independence yes at this point seeing the violence after the referendum vote and also that spain essentially doesnt recognize where the violence was during the referendum vote and not caused by the catalans after state and. What we are looking right now for is a meditator someone who could bring us to the table and make us talk with the Spanish Government because this is the what we really want to do we dont want to break rules we dont want to break. Treaties we want to talk and we want to agree and coins and we need to do that so we need someone who could do this for us or offer himself as a as a peace negotiator what is the Catalan Government looking to get out of this sort of mediation that youre looking to to take Carry Forward where we are unlike since twenty two thousand twenty to twenty five for it to trying to talk to the med writ government in order to improve our autonomous government and it doesnt really work because theres this this is no and its illegal and all these answers that didnt doesnt really help and so what we want is to to step on and try to talk by other means but always peaceful and quietly not with someone else talking about riots or we dont do that what about the referendum vote in the first place it is after all illegal according to the spanish constitution. Yes well but. The Spanish Constitutional Court is as you may know you know very politically influenced by the governing party. So you say this was a political decision wasnt political and there is actually an author of this constitution he says that a referendum could have a place within the spanish consider houston and we fight for our right to have this closed this referendum and to to have our own voice heard you want to have your own voice heard in the Catalan Government claims that the majority of catalan support independence what kind of independence would this be if the Spanish Government doesnt recognize it when that could be another countries to recognize that its not necessarily that the Spanish Government the European Union says its an internal matter of spain yeah thats very surprising i because we saw in last sunday so many were so many. Police violence going on and it doesnt really fit into the European Values i think so i think the European Union should take some arts should be interested in and talk about that with the Spanish Government and the Catalan Government and we really like to learn to love we love to her the arguments from the madras side weve never heard but we have a lot of off steady arguments to talk about and we hope that they have they were the value within the debates what are some of those arguments or what is the Catalan Governments position here what is wrong with the status quo as being a part of spain and as catalan is in the moment when you so theres a lot of issues there are many issues. From the social side from the economic side from the cultural side and and all these are very deeply rooted in the society in the Current Society as one example is that created there recently has fought against thirty two laws from the from the gotta learn parliament which is a. When you are at a loss like for instance and equality between men a