short term higher gas prices, is the government willing to compensate for that? and therefore ensure that europe holds the line against the russians on these things? but i wouldn t start with the assumption that the europeans would back down anyway once the prices go up because this is the calculation in russia thatis this is the calculation in russia that is too easy for us to say, ok, we will basically be able to undermine this assumption because thatis undermine this assumption because that is part of political deterrence to keep your adversary somewhat at risk and uncertainty of what we are willing to throw into the game. i suppose this is the first european defence and security crisis, if we can put it like that for many years, where we are not seeing the key figure of angela merkel at the table in the discussions could of course olaf scholz is now the german chancellor and his approach is
televised address earlier today. in other words, that it is not russia thatis other words, that it is not russia that is the aggressor, russia has been forced to act in a military way because of western aggression, nato aggression, and because ukraine has become. but there was russians who do not get their news from the state media, who perhaps go on the internet and look at what is happening online, i think they have a different view, and we have seen very few people so far publicly protesting, because of the fear of being arrested. the situation is very difficult here for people who have a different view, a critical view of the authorities. this i m joined here by our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. we stood in this spot last night on the ten o clock news and we agreed it felt as if things had changed, and it s quite clear that all that shuttle diplomacy over the last two