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Tonight i have something new to show you, it highlights what the stakes are as we talk about this issue. these are newly declassified government videos of nuclear weapons tests from the 1950s. vivid illustrations of the instructive power of nuclear weapons. that pacific island is still uninhabitable six decades later. this is from a site in nevada, called area 2. here s another from that operation, the government made about 7,000 videos of nuclear tests, remember those videos as we think about north korea s recent missile tests. the u.s. needs to rethink its approach. the diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to bring north korea to a point of demilitarization have failed. we have 20 years of failed approach. gordon chiang is an asia ....
Escalation of crisis with china with misspelling. then her yam webster tweeted the hashtag word of the day is not unprecedented. goes on to say, that s a new one. and at this rate, julie, it may be a new word by the end of the weekend. all right, will carr in los angeles. thank you. rick? well, for more on this, we go to gordon chang, author of the coming collapse of china and an asia expert. some have called this an act of piracy. you call it an act of war. what they did is they took a sovereign vessel, which is the way the defense department termed it, and they took it. so it doesn t matter whether it s an aircraft carrier or a drone, the principle is the same. this is an act of high piracy on the international seas. we have to respond. we know the chinese were tracking the u.s. vessel for days. clearly, they saw this drone being put in the water, and then they snatched it out and the americans watched it happen. and were, i guess, powerless to ....
Dean, former dnc chair and an msnbc contributor. welcome to you both on this sunday. ladies first with you. you worked for the state department, the national security council. someone with that background and knowledge, what s your reaction to what pence is saying here? i actually think that on the part of the trump team, they re very disorganized right now. i hope that this was a mistake. it s a sign that they don t have anyone with significant asia experience on their team and they do need to find someone who put in their foreign policy april r apparatus who is an asia expert. hopefully it was a mistake. but who really knows what s going on? howard, is mike pence right? president obama reached out to a dictator. what is wrong with president-elect trump taking a call from taiwan? what s wrong is that we have something called the one china policy which may or may not be fair but it s a policy which we agreed to when we opened ....
begin t. group is claiming responsibility form a series of attacks last weekend in the north that killed more than 200 people. the u.s. republican party presidential kanld dats faced off in the final debate in the u.s. state of florida. newt gingrich quickly fired the shot at miss romney over his immigration policies. both candidates have relentlessly attacked each over in the media in the past few days. a frightening day for australia s prime minister left unanswered questions about her security. activists surged on a restaurant where she was attending an event. police decided to rush the prime minister to safety. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. hello and welcome to world business today, happy friday to all of you out there. i m nina dos santos in london. from cnn hong kong, i m pauline choiu. i m john deaf tar yoes in switzerland, the top stories on january 27th. nearly a ....