Sanctions designed to further isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. Welcome to the program a day after north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border and Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular exercises and wrist obvious gob posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions well robert fried is live in persia thats on the south korean side of the border so talk us through the mood there in south korea after these latest threats from the north. I think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of words will get out but also i think generally in south korea there is a feeling of we have be
A damning insider account. And the new us sanctions designed to further isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. Welcome to the program a day after north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular military exercises and rest up his guard posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions for its part south korea says it will no longer accept what it calls unreasonable behavior from its neighbor well robert kelly is a professor of International Relations and diplomacy at Busan National university it joins us via skype from there robert weve seen a number of recent military threats by north korea in the last few days but what message is pyongyang sending by blowing up this legs in office and why now. Hi yet thank
A count. On the World Trade Organization find saudi arabia broke global rules and failing to stop a pirate broadcaster stealing content from a qatari sports network. Welcome to the program a day off the north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border and Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular military exercises and reestablish guard posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions and for its part south korea says it will no longer accept unreasonable behavior from its neighbor well rob mcbride has more now from you on the south korean side of the border. I think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of w
Turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq. Deployed troops to the 100000 in the region near the border to fight the p. K. K. Warplanes have also targeted the groups positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be in Northern Iraq turkey the u. S. And the e. U. All lists the p. K. K. As a terrorist group. A correspondence in turkey and iraq a monitoring developments faultiness in baghdad but 1st lets go to city of course yahoo who is in istanbul for a sit in so this is the 2nd to cross border operation within a week. Well the a fact of the turkish mother of 3 has on an awful peroration is to the region especially since the 2018 in the military intensified operation and the reason is not only the presence in Northern Iraq but the link between the Syrian Kurdish functional group. In syria basically the idea of the sofa ration by the Turkish Military it is actually to cut the logistics line between the p. K. K. And the y. P. G. In s
A delay in imposing on darkness being blamed for the high death rate in chile to cover 19. Turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq deployed troops to the hof the new region near the border to fight the p. K. K. Warplanes have also targeted the groups positions around 3000. 00 fighters are believed to be in Northern Iraq turkey the u. S. And the e. U. All list the p. K. K. As a terrorist group across one its in turkey and iraq are monitoring developments most of all team is in baghdad but 1st lets go to cinema call so lou who is in istanbul scene of how major all of an operation is this. Well these are all major operations actually not only because they are targeting the bases of the out both Kurdistan Workers Party but these are all happening simultaneously yes there have been operations to the area on and off before in the in since 1990 s. But especially since 2800 Turkish Military intensified its cross Border Operations the id