what we re seeing now with russia but that said, i would say that putin has not made up his mind. i do not think he has made up his mind. i think he is shopping for various possibilities. he is trying to see whether concessions may be made, whether he may be able to get his way somewhere so i think that actually allows opportunity to engage in diplomacy and we should be engaging in diplomacy and we should try diplomacy until the very, very end. both sides should do that because the stakes are high. i just want to pick up on what you said there. not made up his mind to do what? and what concessions might he want? briefly on those two things you ve just raised. not made up his mind to invade ukraine. in what shape or form? well, we do not know. i do not have a direct connection to putin s mind, nobody does, nobody knows what goes through his head except for putin himself. what we do know is that there is a lot of uncertainty to this situation. it could go in any way.
southwards during the day. it is a largely driver cloudy day. best chance of sunshine to north wales, midlands and northern england. temperatures between five and 9 degrees, feeling quite chilly where you stick with the cloud all day long. on tuesday, mostly dry but mostly cloudy day and we will see rain in the north on wednesday. milder by this stage. hello this is bbc news with the headlines: the former conservative minister nusrat ghani says she was sacked from herjob, because of her muslim faith the government chief whip says that s false. since then nusrat ghani has said she asked the prime minister in 2020 to launch a government inquiry but he told her to use the internal conservative party complaint process which she thought was not appropriate . the government says russia will face severe economic sanctions if it
we are trying to integrate more with europe. we already are in an incredibly strong alliance with nato, we work in the osce together, and we also work closely, especially on trade and environmental regulation, with the eu. so we are, we want to be allies, we want to be together. and i wouldn t say that we and we would like ukraine to join us, by the way. and if russia chose tojoin it, fine, russia canjoin too. but i would say we are not trying to make it about us and them, we want it to be europe and the us, and russia is the one trying to pull that away and break up the alliance. and do you see it, as olha is asking there, that this global instability has been with us for a long time and may continue for a long time? that s up to russia. i think, if i can step in, there is a huge gap between, we re not about talking eu or nato or us, orjust any other,
learned by everybody. quite, thanks for that carl. tamuz, ijust want to come back to you, do you want to comment on what you heard our panel say about this? i want to be an optimist. you want to be an optimist, we like that here. let me just get a couple of comments from our audience here on what they have heard our panel say today. anybody want to make a comment? russia became a successor state of the soviet union, they took over their seat in the security council | but did they change? right, thank you very much. another comment please from our audience? the proposal to include ukraine . as a nato plus member will give the possibility to the usa to foster and enlarge the american - arms sales to ukraine. that looks to me as a great adventure commercial- possibility for the usa, but in conrtrast there are far fewer possibilities for ukraine compared to the full nato membership. - nato plus seems like a weak compromise in the current - discussions with the russian
he s been subjectivized by the international leaders. he has been invited to nato, to the oec bilateral talks and summits, as it was back in the 805, with the us. that brings additional pluses to his narrative and to his support inside moscow, inside russia, so if he goes with a military invasion, it will leave him no room for additional points to be gained by internal narrative so this is something that could restrain him but we should also take into account that it is not only about global talks and implications on ukraine, it is something which perfectly well serves his internal interests as a president who wants to be elected until the very last day of his life. alright thanks. please, carl bildt. to add very, very briefly, there are issues, where they should be possible to talk with him