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It is an hour of international news, live in the BBC newsroom. | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres looks set to be | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
After hitting Haiti, Hurricane Matthew is moving | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
towards the Bahamas and the US south coast - | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
where tens of thousands of people have been told evacuate their homes. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Just over 35 million Americans tuned in to watch the men who want to be | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
He said, if I run for president, I will absolutely release my taxes. He | :00:37. | :00:54. | |
has broken his first promise. He went to an incredibly difficult | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
time, he used the tax code as it should be used, and brilliantly. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Anthony circa will -- Anthony Zurcher will assess their | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
performances. British Prime Minister Theresa May | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
has addressed her first Conservative Party | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Conference as leader. We've been finding out how she's | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
been received. If you have stories, suggestions or | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
questions, you can get the unsocial media, use the hashtag, and the | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
e-mail address is available through the Apple. -- you can get me on | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
social media. This is Antonio Guterres, | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
and he is almost certain to be the next Secretary-General | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
of the United Nations. He's a former Prime | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Minister of Portugal. A formal vote at the UN | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Security Council tomorrow will But there seems to be | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
total agreement. Russia's UN ambassador | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Vitaly Churkin said The US's representative | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
called the process Nada Tawfik is at | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
the UN in New York. There will be people watching in | :01:57. | :02:16. | |
Portugal who know all about him, but for everyone else, introduces to the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
man we will see a lot of? Absolutely. Antonio Guterres was a | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
politician in Portugal, made his way all the way up to being Prime | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Minister. Spent some time in the European Commission, in fact. | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Between 2005 and 2015, he led the UN refugee agency. We had a number of | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
diplomats mentioning how that experience will be really key if he | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
gets confirmed as the next as they have recommended today. He basically | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
oversaw the agency at a time when we have 65 million people displaced | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
around the world, the worst refugee crisis and to World War II. Antonio | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Guterres basically told diplomats when he spoke in front of the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
General Assembly to say that his personal mission will be to prevent | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
conflict. Looking at social media, lots of | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
people are looking at the fact that he is evidently not a woman, many | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
people thought it was time the UN was led by a woman. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
There have been 15 member states and civil society lobbying for a female | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
UN Secretary-General for the first time. Seven of the 13 original | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
candidates were women. But when we saw through the informal straw | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
polls, and this was the sixth, women never led any of them. There was a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
bit of disappointment, because several people paid lip service to | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
the fact that it was high time for a woman to hold the top job at the UN, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
but they never voted that way, but never really materialised. On the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
other hand, we are seeing lots of people saying that, it is not a | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
woman, you need a candidate with the right qualities. They can't deny | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
that Mr Guterres has the right qualifications. But there is the | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
disappointment that after all the lobbying and lip service to the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
point that there should finally be a woman at the helm of the UN after a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
man on the job, it has not materialised. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Just to be clear, the process has not been completed, but with the UN | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Security Council coming behind Antonio Guterres, it is almost | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
certain he will take over in the job. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Throughout the programme you can see the hashtag, where you can find me | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
in social media and the e-mail address. Those are all on screen. By | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
all means get into it. -- get in touch. | :04:44. | :04:44. | |
Hurricane Matthew has reached the Bahamas and the US will be next. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Peter Gibbs from BBC weather who is sitting just behind his desk said | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that the eye of the storm is to the west of the Bahamas at the moment, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
it is certain to hit those islands. This is the latest forecast map | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
released by the US The hurricane is expected to reach | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Florida in the next 24 hours - Hundreds of thousands of people have | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
been told to evacuate. And while the hurricane moves on, | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
in Haiti, the work continues to recover from it. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The BBC's Nick Bryant is in Haiti's capital, | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
Port-au-Prince, and Disaster must often seem like a way | :05:21. | :05:32. | |
of life for the hard-pressed people of Haiti. This morning, victims of | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Hurricane Matthew were trying to make this treacherous river crossing | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
by foot. A journey that, on Monday, they could make by car. The bridge | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
linking the main road from the capital to the worst affected | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
communities in the south of this country has been washed away. It has | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
severed this town in half and severely hampered the relief effort. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Homes have been swamped by the deluge of rain. And destroyed by 140 | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
mph winds. This shanty dwellings only just managed to survive the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
hurricane force winds. The just a few yards away in what now looks | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
like wasteland, the homes of four families were washed away as the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
floodwaters rushed down the valley. These are the people made homeless, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the children whose features seem continually blighted by tragedy. The | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
epicentre of the 2010 earthquake was a short drive away. It is not just | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
sorrow they are feeling, but despair. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
The children have just started school, she told me, and their new | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
uniforms were washed away. This storm has left a trail of third | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
World -- third World destruction, and this impoverished country is | :06:55. | :06:55. | |
struggling to cope. I can access all the information | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
coming through the BBC newsroom and show it to you as it comes to us on | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
the Outside Stores screen. Without breaking news concerning Barack | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Obama and the Paris climate accord. He has said that the ratification of | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
the Paris climate accord, fresh old nations officially reached on | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Wednesday, he is calling it an historic day in the fight against | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
climate change. He gave a statement earlier, B play use. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
This agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
climate change. It will help other nations ratchet down their dangerous | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
carbon emissions over time and set bold targets as technology advances, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
all under a strong system of transparency allowing each nation to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
evaluate the progress of all other nations. And by sending a signal | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
that this will be our future, a clean energy future, it opens the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
floodgates for businesses and scientists and engineers to unleash | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
hi-tech, low carbon investment and innovation on a scale we have never | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
seen before. This gives us the best possible shot to save the one planet | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
we've got. We had stories from Washington, New | :08:16. | :08:16. | |
York and Haiti. Next we will bring you up to date | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
with UK politics. Ryman is a Theresa May has given a major speech to the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Conservative Party conference, the first time she has addressed to as | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
leader of the Conservative Party -- Prime Minister Theresa May. The | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
message is that change has to come to the UK. In some ways it is | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
inevitable because of Brexit, Norman Smith pulled out one quote from | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Theresa May when she said that Brexit was acquired revolution. I | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
have a clip from the Prime Minister's speech where she expands | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
on that. The referendum was not just a bowled | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
to withdraw from the EU, it was something broader, something that | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the European Union had come to represent. It is about a sense, | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
deep, profound and, let's face it, often justified, that many people | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
have today, that the world works well for a privileged few but not | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
for them. It was a vote and not just to change Britain 's nation ship | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
with the European Union, but to call for a change in the way our country | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
works. And the people for whom it works forever. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Knock on almost any door in almost any part of the country and you will | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
find the roots of that revolution laid back. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Rob Watson assessed the speech for us. Every politician has one big | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
idea, and Theresa May's big idea is that somehow the referendum changed | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
everything, and the interesting thing is her solution. What has been | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
fascinating, depending on your point of view, she has either decided to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
put herself at the head, as one person put it, of an angry mob of 70 | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
million Leave voters or, as I think she sees it, to somehow come to the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
rescue of capitalism and free markets. You are absolutely right, | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
we lack a lot of the detail, but I think that is what she is trying to | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
do, it is to say, OK, we understand the Leave voters were angry not just | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
about the EU but all sorts, and this is extraordinary for a Conservative | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
politician, we have to have state intervention to deal with injustice | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
and unfairness. How it works out, she has set herself an incredibly | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
high bar, she will be this champion of the working classes. In about a | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
year, people like me and the voters of Britain will be saying, what have | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
you done, though? At the heart of this, inevitably, | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
will be how the UK economy performs. This Tweet from the Washington Post | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
highlighted... Theresa May bragged about Britain | :10:54. | :10:54. | |
being world's fifth-largest economy. After her speech, | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
it dropped to sixth. That is because of the relative | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
weakness of the pound and the way that economies are measured in | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
exchange rate terms. It highlights her day-to-day economic pressures? | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Absolutely. We have seen some thing extraordinary this week, the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
transformation of Theresa May. She was on the side of Remain. No shoes | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
and a few zested cheerleader for Brexit. At the Conservative Party, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
perfectly understandably, all week they have tried to create SQ 74 | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Brexit as a big new opportunity, but lurking in the background, and you | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
were talking about the data on the economy, businesses are hugely | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
worried, both once based here and multinational businesses. They do | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
not have the optimism about Brexit. Add to that, all of Britain's allies | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
remain of the view that it was a thoroughly bad idea. This all comes | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
back to money, and very specifically the City. One of the meetings I went | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
to at the Conservative Party conference, somebody want that the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Government could be losing vast numbers of billions of pounds of | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
revenue. To go back to Theresa May's promises, she promised good | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
government, government intervening on behalf of the less well off, the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
working class. To do that, as you well know, you need money. | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
By all accounts Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence came out | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
on top in the vice presidential debate last night. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
If you disagree with that, you can see the contacts | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Certainly he did a good job of fending off the multiple | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
We'll discuss how he did that in a moment. | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Certainly the fact-checkers had a busy time. | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
Let me interrupt you and finish my sentence, if I can. | :12:35. | :12:57. | |
Donald Trump can't start it were to war with Miss universe without | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
shooting himself in the food. He loves dictators, he has a personal | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Mount Rushmore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Muamba Gaddafi and Saddam | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Hussein. Did you work on that one for a long time, it had a lot of | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
very creative lines in it. Donald Trump, if he had said all of the | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
things you said in the way you said he said them, he would not have a | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
fraction of the insults that Hillary Clinton levelled when she said that | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
half of our supporters were a basket of deplorables. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Ronald Reagan said something very interesting about nuclear | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
proliferation in the 80s, some fool or maniac could trigger a | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
catastrophic event. I think that is Governor Pence's running mate, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
exactly who president Reagan wanders about. That is even beneath you and | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Hillary Clinton, that is pretty low. Donald Trump has built a business, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
through hard times and good. He has brought extraordinary business | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
acumen. Do you want a your hired president | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
in Hillary Clinton, or read your fired president in Donald Trump? | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
Almost immediately something has happened. Anthony Zurcher 's posting | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
analysis online. His analysis was headlined, who won the vice | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
president shall debate? Let's ask in what he thinks, he is alive with us | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
on outside source. It was an accomplished performance by Mike | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Pence, whatever your politics? It was. Mike Pence has a background as | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
a conservative host in the 90s, beyond just being a politician. His | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
style and experience showed in that debate. Tim Kaine was overly | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
aggressive his attacks, Mike Pence was calm, measured until and was | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
able to answer the questions or shrug them off however best he | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
could. He had a very good style and manner that I think this on Tim | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Kaine, whenever Tim Kaine tried to throw a Donald Trump quoted him he | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
said, he said, he never said that, or you are misrepresenting them. I | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
think fact checkers will go through and say, yes, Donald Trump praised | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
blood Amir Putin or endorse nuclear proliferation to places like Japan | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
and South Korea. In the context of the debate, stylewise, changing the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
subject and trying to clear the parent turn the page, Mike Pence was | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
very effective. We have said that everyone is | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
welcome to e-mail in question is, we have one which says, why on earth | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
did Hillary not just choose Bernie Sanders as her running mate? | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
I think that she wanted to try to run as a moderate, somewhere in the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
middle, to appeal not only to liberals but to disaffected moderate | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Republicans. Bernie Sanders would not have been able to do that. Tim | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
Kaine, however, is moderate and from a swing state, Virginia. I think | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
picking him has made Virginia say for Hillary Clinton. In hindsight it | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
might have been a better choice to pick somebody who was more of a | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
liberal firebrand like Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren from | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Massachusetts, who could activate the base and get young voters, | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
because that is a weakness of Hillary Clinton, but she picked the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
safe pick in Tim Kaine, somebody is steady and perhaps unremarkable, but | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
it is the type of pic you make when you are ahead and you think you need | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
not to take risks. Thank you, that was Anthony live | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
from Washington, DC. We'll hear why a case brought | :16:40. | :16:40. | |
by The Marshall Islands It related to American nuclear tests | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
in the forties and fifties. We will hear about that from the | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Hague. We will explain in a few minutes. | :16:51. | :18:02. | |
I Ros Atkins, this is outside source, live in the BBC newsroom. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
The former Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Guterres, is said | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
to be the next UN Secretary-General after almost unanimous approval at | :18:14. | :18:14. | |
the UN Security Council. BBC World Service radio reports | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
that this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
to three European scientists. They were honoured for their work | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
on what's been described as the world's smallest machines - | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
these are molecules with controllable movements, | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
which can be used to perform tasks Colombia's President has extended | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
a ceasefire with the FARC rebel Government negotiators are also | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
trying to salvage the peace agreement with the FARC that was | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
rejected in a national referendum. Now to trains - Ethiopia | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified railway | :18:46. | :19:02. | |
line in Africa. It will link landlocked Addis Ababa | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
to the port of Djibouti - that's a stretch of more | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
than 750 miles. As full capacity, goods will be | :19:10. | :19:25. | |
transported across the two countries in less than half a day, greatly | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
improving freight delivery for landlocked Ethiopia. At least 3000 | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
people will travel between the capitals every day on the passenger | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
line. What more do you ask? Sub-Saharan African setting, I think | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
we have gone to show something new. Over next humans the train will | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
undergo test runs before becoming fully operational. Already plans are | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
under way for initial -- additional lines to connect Ethiopia to its | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
other neighbours as the country increases its infrastructure. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Spot the man at the end of that report was an enormous phone, I | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
don't think they are for sale in the UK. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
It is the Paris motor show, we have a report from Theo Leggett. If you | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
have been to the most watched videos, this has been part their | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
flowers. It is about the cars he has found and the different | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
technological features they have. At the Paris motor show there are | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
literally hundreds of new cars, large and small, absolutely hi-tech | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
and state-of-the-art. I know what you were thinking, which has the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
best cup-holders? I will find out, let's start with the new Land Rover | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Discovery. Newly launched at the show. Let's take a peek. Nice | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
spacious interior, all very hi-tech. Apparently there is Wi-Fi in this | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
car. What about the cup-holders? I can't see them. Underneath here, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
there they are. There is room for my bottle and cup and, look at this, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
under here we have a fridge. That is imaginative. So I give this seven | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
out of ten. This is one of the most exciting | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
cars at the show, if I were able to drive one it would do wonders for my | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
social life if nothing else, a new Ferrari which is made up of carbon | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
fibre, 800 horsepower, a Formula 1 style gearbox, it looks absolutely. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
There are really 200 being made and they have all been sold already. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Here is the Porter point, it has all of these features, but where do I | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
put my cupboard my bottle of water? Excitement, ten out of ten, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
cup-holders, zero out of ten. I think we have cracked it with the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Peugeot Traveller, it is a six seater. It is going to the passenger | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
compartment. Lots of room, where the cup-holders? If I lived that are | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
becoming here we go. Room for my cupboard bottle. Here is the clever | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
bit, I can eat my dinner -- dinner flat. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Ten out of ten! That is a serious cup-holder, no doubt. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
In the South Pacific, you'll find the Marshall Islands. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
They are quite hard to see. Australia is at the bottom of the | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
map. And in the 1940s and 50s, | :22:19. | :22:18. | |
the US carried out Much more recently the Islands | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
brought a case against Britain, The allegation was that they failed | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
to stop the spread Today the case was thrown out | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
at the International Court This is the former Foreign Minister | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
of the Islands speaking about the impact of the tests | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
a few months ago. Several islands in my country were | :22:39. | :22:50. | |
vaporised. And others are estimated to remain uninhabitable for | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
thousands of years. Many, many people in the Marshall Islands died | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
and suffered birth defects never before seen, and battled cancer is | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
resulting from contamination. Tragically, the Marshall Islands | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
Bears eyewitness to the human thick -- horrific capacity of these | :23:14. | :23:14. | |
weapons. Anna Holligan's covering | :23:15. | :23:15. | |
this in the Hague. I got her to explain why the case | :23:16. | :23:16. | |
is against these three Because they are signatories to this | :23:17. | :23:28. | |
court, the UN's highest court, the International Court of Justice. You | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
had to give these islanders, 50,000 people, credit for that tenacity, | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
taking three of the UN's nuclear giants to court. They were hoping to | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
get support and to reignite the nuclear disarmament debate. The | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
court said that although it empathised and sympathised with | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
their suffering, it realise why this was an important issue to the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
islanders because of everything that happened in history, this was not | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
the place for them to seek justice, because this court, inside the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
glorious peace Palace, deals with disputes between states, and the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Marshall Islands failed to prove there was a dispute before they | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
lodged this action in 2014. What is the American position on the | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
complaints made by the Marshall Islands? | :24:19. | :24:19. | |
They don't recognise the jurisdiction of the ICJ. It was not | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
able to proceed against them. Compensation has been paid critics | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
have said that this whole legal action in the Hague has been a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
distraction from the victims' real concerns about better health care | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
and more compensation, that kind of thing. To give you a sense of scale, | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Marshall Islands, in terms of the pact of these nuclear tests, you | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
remember Hiroshima in 1945, the 6th of August, the US detonated an | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
atomic bomb, 130,000 people were killed in the Japanese city. One of | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
the tests in the Marshall Islands was 75 times as powerful as that. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
You can understand why they took this action. Unfortunately for the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
disarmament campaigners and the Marshall Islands is onside, it has | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
failed and been thrown out by the ICJ today. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
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