sit at a distance from russia, or are all the tables like that? as you say, katie, plenty of political commentators have been saying that this was about political projection, about putin making macron feel uncomfortable while they were talking. but actually, in the last couple of weeks, he's also held talks with the president of iran and the prime minister of hungary, both of whose country arguably enjoy better relations with russia than france does. was he still using that table? yeah, at the very same table. in fact, lots of other people are saying this is more about putin's weariness over coronavirus. just to give you another example, back in december he held his marathon annual press conference, and any journalist who wanted to attend the event had to pass three pcr tests and, once they got to the venue, they had to go through a kind of disinfection tunnel which sprayed them with sanitiser. and when they eventually got into the hall they were a good 20 metres away from the russian president anyway. 0k, more from you, francis, in a moment. we'll bare that in mind. but going on, what's