commentary from korea expert glyn ford will stay with us here on r t coming up in the program fueling anger find out how the u.s. interest precise day he american air base in kyrgyzstan and what it all has to do with a revolution in that country. and china extends its political influence in europe by offering to help struggling economies but is it enough to save the u r t investigated a few moments. but first the aftermath of freezing rain is causing major delays in disruptions at one of moscow's main airports i stopped electrical cables have ruptured causing a power outage shutting down one of the city's key travel hubs at this time of the year for more. anyone trying to fly in or out of. today going to be experiencing. difficulties now they've had complete electricity blackouts they none of the flights at the moment a guy you can see here the situation pretty chaotic the weather has had a pretty serious effect on the traffic because the people the tree in the right and people just getting out they call them walking with icy cases but as we said at the moment that's going to be a fut

the worst escalation of tension on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago an expert on korea glyn ford says that 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 at sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally is 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 consequent upon the south koreans intruding into what the north koreans considered to be their waters the dangerous escalation what you hadid 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 wit