probably russia's leading opposition politician has a long interview in "the times of london" this morning and said, look, the weapon's response so far has the kremlin laughing because this is precisely what they wanted. they wanted what he calls another installment in the tv show that they are running called, "look, look, the west hates us," and that that, you know, feeds putin's nationalism and his base. so where do you go from there? is this crisis provoked for that reason? and if that's the case, the more you oppose him, the more it plays into this game. >> first of all, kicking out 23 diplomats is not going to have any impact on putin. it's not going to prevent this from happening again. this is the second time that something like this has happened in the uk. litvinenko was killed with nuclear poison in 2006. what putin will react to and the way to deal with this situation