the russian leader. democrat saying we have not face the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. i don t think there s an ability to use a nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. look what you just heard from the president, this is stark language. you do not normally hear this from u.s. presidents. not now. and it comes as the u.s. considers how to response to a range of potential scenarios. for more let s bring in jeremy diamond. has there been any escalation from russia that prompted these remarks? reporter: there s no question there is an elevated risk of nuclear war based on the language we ve heard from the russian president but u.s. officials say there is nothing that has changed that nothing that they have seen that has changed in russia s nuclear posture. last week we heard the russian president talking about any and all means necessary to defend russian territory as he talked about the use of nuclear weapons but what we haven t hea
the u.s. navy moving an aircraft carrier strike are group into the waters off the korean peninsula following a series of missile launches over the past two weeks. paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. paula, we just learned in the last few minutes there appears to have been another missile launch from north korea. what more do we know? well, erica, this particular thing we ve heard about in the last few minutes from the joint chiefs of staff wasn t a missile launch. we re told it was some kind of an aircraft firing exercise they believe. 12 north korean aircraft were detected carrying out some sort of exercise outside of the special surveillance line. this line is in north korea, but it is a virtual line that if any north korean aircraft come below that point, south korea responds. they did that. they mobilized 30 aircraft according to the joint chiefs of staff. you can see this htit for tat i starting to escalate. we know the u.s.s. ronald reagan is back in the waters
this morning. as the u.s. navy moves in aircraft carrier strike group in the waters off the korean peninsula. and one woman is killed in zaporizhzhia after a russian missile strike as intel believes someone in ukrainian government authorized the assassination of a moscow official s daughter. and the white house slamming opec s plan to slash oil production as officials fear it will send gas prices soaring. let s begin this hour with rising tensions offer the korean peninsula. we re following all of the developments from seoul, south korea. we have seen a lot happen here around the korean peninsula in just the last 24 hours. north korea started the day with those two short-range ballistic moi missiles and then we saw the usa ronald reagan off the east coast and carrying out another naval drill. now we ve also heard just this evening from the joints chiefs of staff here in south korea that north korea carried out its own drill this afternoon. now this was with 12 north korean
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diplomats from the embassy in washington will be calling the two men. now to growing tensions on the korean peninsula. north korea flying war planes near the south after several missile launches in the last two weeks. this comes as the u.s. and south korea are conducting joint military exercises in the region. paula hancocks is live for us in seoul. what do we know about the latest provocation. reporter: this happened thursday afternoon local time. they called it a protest flight. what they believe happened is that some 12 north korean aircraft were staging some kind of air to surface firing exercise. they say they were flying south of what they call the special surveillance line. this is in north korea but it is a virtual line that the south korean military watches closely if they see north korean