dialogue could only be sincere if there was no escalation. he has made that clear. i think he got on monday a guarantee of some sort or at least a verbal assurance from putin that he would not be the cause or the origin of escalation. that's for what it's worth. it's not a written guarantee of any sort but i think macron still thinks that there is a possibility for talks and that's a different tone coming out of paris for the moment to that coming out of london, for example. >> i thought it was not a coincidence that he also decided to take that -- this moment, this period, to announce a major new expansion of french nuclear energy. he has been talking about it, of course, but that is surely in stark contrast with germany, which is ever more reliant on russian gas, don't you think? >> well, it is in a way france is less exposed as you said, fareed, because of its reliance on nuclear energy for the majority of its electricity generation in france and that put it in a different situation