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We have more nuclear weapons than anybody.

We don't do testing.

We've halted it years, many years ago.

But with others doing testing, I think it's appropriate that we do also.

President Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.

He made the announcement just before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss

trade relations.

We'll get the latest on both stories.

Then to Sudan, where the RSF militia is being accused of killing over 2,000 people, including over 400 in a

hospital, after capturing the city of Elfashir in Darfur. People are basically a trap. Some of them

are hiding in holes on the ground in order to protect themselves from shelling.

But most of all, they fear execution.

They fear targeted killing.

We have heard of house-to-house raids.

We have heard of mass execution as people try to flee.

Then to Cuba.

On the same day, Hurricane Melissa battered the island. The United Nations voted to condemn the U.S. embargo for a 33rd year in a row. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman.

Sudan's government says the rapid support forces paramilitary group has killed at least 2,000 people in the three days since it seized control of the city of El Fasher in North Darfur.

This comes as the World Health Organization says it's appalled by reports that 460 patients and their companions were slaughtered at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in Elfasher.

On Wednesday, UN Refugee Agency official Jacqueline Wil Parleviet, said tens of thousands of displaced people

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