sara flounders from the international action center in new york says that the u.s. is that in the situation on the peninsula as it continues to hold joint military drills with the sound. well it's an extremely serious and tense situation this is a fourth direct provocation of u.s. south korean military exercises in less than a month so you're talking about we're really talking about many many ships in the area fifty to seventy ships hundreds of aircraft tens of thousands of troops operating just a few miles three to seven miles off of north korea's coast many miles north of the demilitarized zone that in itself is a provocation so here is south korea u.s. and backing support and u.s. participation and the united states moving nuclear powered a nuclear weapons aircraft carriers directly into the region off the coast and i think the u.n. security council meeting was an important effort to call on all sides but but nevertheless in the even in the face of that and the world calls that south korea and the u.s. went ahead with these military exercises so the very fact tha

sara flounders from the think tank the international action center says south korea's military drills are disturbing the precarious balance on planes. this is a fourth direct provocation of u.s. south korean military exercises in less than a month we're really talking about many many ships in the area fifty to seventy ships hundreds of aircraft tens of thousands of troops operating just a few miles three to seven miles off of north korea's coast many miles north of the demilitarized zone that in itself is a provocation so here is south korea us and backing support and u.s. participation and the united states moving nuclear power to nuclear weapons aircraft carriers still regularly into the region off the coast this these are really dangerous provocations and i think the u.n. security council meeting was an important effort to call on all sides but but nevertheless in the even in the face of that and world calls. south korea and the u.s. went ahead with these military exercises on its way here naughty tangled in a web the reports whole and free zones playing victim to agreements sensat

anti-war campaigner sara flounders says the u.s. is deliberately working to push the peninsula over the edge. stephanie a provocation unintended provocation as are the past military maneuvers both last july and again in november the united states government may really be orchestrating a confrontation we should never forget the gulf of tonkin incident as it was called that led to the vietnam war the united states is no longer in the position it was sixty years ago when it was the great power in the region it is today an empire in serious decline and decay and attempting to do to military many aircraft carriers what it no longer has a productive capacity to do it really is an attempt to get out of the economic crisis globally with more military expenditures and more military confrontations and it's a great danger for the people of the whole globe but especially the people of the region a poll of american the shows that concern for the country's wars in iraq and afghanistan has hit a new low many were stunned when asked basic questions

peace stability and no continued provocations ok sara flounders from the international action center many thanks for speaking to us about this increasingly tense situation on the korean peninsula many thanks yes very much so now russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting india on a two day trip aimed at strengthening trade and investment time the two countries are expected to sign a number of agreements charan singh reports from new delhi ahead of the talks. the eleventh annual russia india summit is expected to start shortly as president medvedev arrives late on monday night in new delhi he will be in india for two days and i suspect the sign over there doesn't agreements with the indian side of the agreement will be the joint development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft over thirty billion dollars this contract has been negotiated for a while now and will be finalized on tuesday between president medvedev and prime minister singh. is the expansion of cooperation in the civil nuclear energy sector russia is expected to build another two additional nuclear reactors for india