all right sara firth reporting live from moscow thanks for about. well professor rooty year to year frank from the university of vienna by continuing the war games south korea risks losing international support. rather cleared out solve group b. if you think to gain and very many things to use from such a strategy it seems that domestic probably to policy considerations for a president you know mark seems to some to really be determined the process he needs to show strength through his people probably also at the cost of a boss and foreign policy is also a measure that certainly is trying since the yourself to be a u.s. ally but according to all south of the media i just returned from seoul yesterday is that it is going to cost the state of the presidency internationally south korea is taking a very great race would say because sulkily is not home rubio began to expect a new cold behavior for four year olds do the south koreans in the last few years were able to display themselves as the good guys as the peaceful ones that are constantly being provo

joined by correspondent sara firth. about what's being going on at the border between the two koreas. well the fight the threat of war by north korea we're seeing today those military drills being carried out by south korea now they've been carried out today also they were delays at the weekend by bad weather and they've not been completed we had about forty people were evacuated from the front line border. and this comes after eight hours of talks last night to the u.n. security council emergency meeting to try and calm the tensions not the meeting with discussing a drive russian draft could all north and south korea pay for framing from escalating this. there may be. vision of tension. serious conflict for that matter so in the big chamber when they have this private meeting which was also of course asked for by the russian federation. we reiterated to cool the strain on both parties in the no uncertain terms we. would ask the republic of korea to refrain from conducting this exercise at this at this point in time but

british official in moscow weeks later for more we go live to our correspondent with the details sara firth in moscow and laura emmett in london good to have you both with us to you first laura what's the british foreign ministry saying about this. but we have had a little confirmed by the british foreign ministry william hague the foreign secretary race unless the house of commons explaining what had happened he said that britain has indeed expelled a diplomat from the russian embassy in london they requested that diplomats expulsion on december the tenth off what hague is cooling clear evidence of russian intelligence service activities acting against bush interests here in london then we are also haring of cool strong the other and that there was a tit for tat expulsion from the british embassy in moscow and in response to that it's expulsion from william hague said that britain would check any basis for that particular action despite the fact that of course it was any response to what the foreign office here had done. now turning to use our there's quite a bit of history between the cou

to nazi germany but as our sara firth reports many georgians are in this tell joke about their self your past despite the government's attempts to wipe out their history. the destruction is savior monuments a law banning savior symbols and now an anticipated documentary and a series of cartoons in local papers all part of an anti save it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation have led many to question its real natives and then you say it's not just anti soviet propaganda but anti russian those conducting this campaign are trying to put russia on a par with the soviet union. it's been two decades since julian independence and just two years since children attacked south thirty year provoking an armed conflict with russia a history of tense relations and these recent events i thought likely to have a bearing on what's now happening. let's cut to a local newspaper the favorite general firing it kicks in. with the problem of why and what part of the anti favor campaign is also being accused of being anti russian and of encourag

correspondents gave us a snapshot of what's going on around russia with alice hibbett of the capital sara firth in the southern city of sochi and sean thomas in the eastern chilly city of your quote. we've brought the party outside i don't know why because this is the coldest region on earth in fact it's about thirty four degrees below zero out here centigrade but that's ok it's not stopping any of the fun in fact i'm joined by actually khan who is the version of good models which of course is the russian version of father frost celebrations couldn't be better out here in fact one of the main features about this area because it is so cold a lot of the decorations for new year involve ice in fact we're standing in the midst of a beautiful frozen ice sculpture a village which is all that a beautiful with lights it's just an amazing amazing time earlier today we had to you had the opportunity to spend preparing for the new year with families getting ready for their celebrations we went to the market with them which was an interesting experience in itself no need for refrigerators there and because

was cross live now to our correspondent sara firth what the situation looking like now. well as he said north korea have not responded and they said that despite previous threats that they would retaliate if these military drills were carried out that they will not respond to this the reasons that they cited that the drills that were carried out this morning on the island near that disputed territory. in territory which previous military drills that have been carried out. shells about she landed on north korea. ever spoken. this morning to come up to a thousand like. the u.n. security council meeting that meeting with russia's request and the people there with. trying to come to some form of. tensions between the two sides. we cannot be optimistic in the situation that's why we suggested an urgent meeting of the un security council most weekend we did not want to condemn anyone we really wanted to urge the sides to show control tensions are very high the meeting took place and although unfortunately no statement was made we managed to send a clear message during the disc