US-Russia nuclear weapons treaty has expired

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The New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, has expired. Signed in 2010, the treaty limits how many strategic nuclear warheads and long range missiles each side can deploy and allows for inspections to verify compliance. Its lapse removes the final legal cap on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine and growing global instability. We speak to Nina Khrushcheva, the great grandaughter of the Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev. We speak to Gloria Allred, one of America's most high-profile lawyers, who is representing some of the women who say they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. And we continue in our coverage of the death of the 26-year-old Nigerian musician, Ifunanya Nwangene. She tragically died over the weekend after being bitten by a snake at her home in Abuja. We hear from her father Christopher Nwangene. Presenters: James Copnall and Anne Soy. (Photo: A still image taken from a handout video made available by the Russian Defence Ministry press service shows a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile being launched as part of nuclear deterrence forces drills from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, northwestern Russia. Credit: Russian Defence Ministry Press Service Handout/via EPA).