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
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
Announces plans to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany accusing it of failing to meet its share of nato spend. South korea says the north has blown off into Korean Liaison Office it was located in the border north korea has made several threats against south korea in recent days including threatening to destroy the office which was set up and 2018 lets bring in robert bride from south Koreas Capital seoul well what more can you tell us. This is a very serious the development is not completely out of the blue they have been making threats for some time from the north against deteriorating relations of course all of this comes against the background of stalled denuclearization talks between north korea and the United States which him as impacted into korean relations with north korea accusing the south of making matters worse and so on so there have been increasingly. Threatening noises from north korea and especially in the past week or so they have been angered by the planned release by
Coalition attack those 4 children and yemen just after the lender moves up from a blacklist of parties that endanger children in conflict. And support the takeover of the English Premier League Club Newcastle united is facing a major setback the World Trade Organization is poised to release its report linking saudi arabia to a pirate t. V. Network be cheap throne takeover bid in 2 uncertainty. South korea says it will respond strongly if the north keeps raising tensions after pyongyang blew up a Liaison Office in the border town of case that comes after days of threats of military action by the north Korean Leadership rob mcbride reports from seoul. The complete destruction of a building created at the height of improving into korean relations and with it and the immediate hope of reconciliation the north has become enraged by defectors who make calls human scum releasing propaganda balloons into its territory kim jong the increasingly influential sister of leader kim jong un had warne
A new corona Virus Outbreak in berlin a whole apartment block is florentine authorities put it down to crown 2 Living Conditions and a growing complacency about the 10 demick plus sending rice by sea and leaflets by air the empty north korean Propaganda Campaign thats copy on yang taking traffic action you will hear from an expert on why korean relations and why this is happening right now. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program germanys chancellor Angela Merkel has urged the e. U. To agree on a Pandemic Recovery package for the block before the end of july merkel made the calls as she laid out for the bundestag her vision for germanys e. U. Council presidency which begins to. The 1st she said that europes Recovery Plan will be limited in time and will involve borrowing on International Money markets merkel added that the economic fallout from the pandemic lockdown is the biggest challenge the e. U. Has faced in its history. Lets get more now we are joined by chief Political Editor mich