border artillery exchange that killed four south koreans let's get some more insight on this from glen ford a former british parliament member and author of the book north korea on the brink a struggle for survival good to have you with or so the north issue strongly worded statements very regularly how likely do you think this thread's. well i mean i think. in the next sort of few days things are fine the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally stopped by the south koreans along the northern limit line which is not recognized even by the united states and the the recent shelling of the of the island. was called squanto poem the south koreans intruding into what the north koreans considered to be their waters so it's basically a maritime boundary dispute these is likely to trigger things and in my view the these military this military training on land. has clearly two sides to this whole thing what about the south koreans were on this do you think they're being deliberately prov

worst escalation of the tension on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago an expert on korea glen ford says no one is provoking a war deliberately but the situation can easily spiral out of control the danger is if we have new military exercises in sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally stopped leased by the south koreans along the northern limit line which is not recognized even by the united states and the the recent shelling of the of the island. was called squanto palm the south koreans intruding into what the north koreans consider through their waters the dangerous escalation what you hobbes sized korean maneuvers which in disputed waters which led to the north korean response of. the artillery shelling of the island we've now seen massive joint u.s. south korean exercises which clearly are leading to the north koreans upping their . upping their readiness for for future for a future attack or military adventurism i don't think anyone's intending to start if you want a full scale war at this point but the danger

commentary from korea expert glen ford still on the way here on r t diplomatic fallout. there ron is considering breaking off all ties with the u.k. . tales of allegations against american military officials that i've got instead who are reportedly preparing to take the war profit the border. but first the aftermath of freezing rain is leading to major delays endace ructions one of moscow's main airports iced up electrical cables have ruptured leading to a power outage shutting down one of the city's key travel hubs at a very busy time of year some domestic flights have reportedly started to depart r t sara for thousands more from domodedovo airport. you can see here the situation pretty chaotic the weather has had a pretty serious effect on the traffic because it's told to go the tree in the right and people are just getting out they call them walking with icy cases but as we said at the moment that's going to be a futile effort because of this electricity blackout and others because the key substations powering the main will the cables supply the electricity for a reas