now, north korea tends to stop answering these calls when the relationship between the countries is particularly bad, and this has led south korea to worry that this situation is deteriorating, because of course when the two sides are communicating, there are ways to mitigate against misunderstandings, miscommunications and escalations. when that communication stops, things become more volatile. just a line of breaking news to bring you relating to officers serving in london s metropolitan police. eight former and serving met police. eight former and serving met police officers have been found guilty of gross misconduct. this relates to messages that were sent in a whatsapp group involving races, sexes, disabled list, homophobic and transphobic comments or pictures. the met police have said that six of those forces have since left the service or been dismissed. to me,