need for a prescription but can get it over the counter but this is not all hrt as you said and if you look at the other symptoms, hot flushes, anxiety, trouble sleeping, this is not designed to help with those. if any women have those problems, the advice is the same as always, go to see your dr, speak about the benefits and risks and find out what hrt can help you outwith. benefits and risks and find out what hrt can help you out with.- hrt can help you out with. thanks for “oininr hrt can help you out with. thanks forjoining us- the defence secretary, ben wallace, says president putin of russia will be judged by his actions not his words on ukraine. it comes after borisjohnson s visit to kyiv yesterday where he warned that russian forces massed on the border represented a clear and present danger to ukraine. the prime minister is also due to talk to the president putin today, in a phone call that was delayed from earlier this week. i m joined by sir tony brenton, former uk a
could come any day. jonathan blake, bbc news. i m joined now by sir tony brenton. he was british ambassador in moscow from 2004 to 2008. he is currently in dubai. thank you very much forjoining us. uber ambassador when russia invaded georgia. what are the parallels? that is sort of overt parallel. at the time of the georgian war, both sides ready for work, the russians were in particular really upset by what the georgians for up to. the difference is that in that war, the georgians launched an attack, but in the build up that we are looking at now with regards to ukraine, i suspected ukrainians have been very strenuously warned not to give the russians any over the course to fight, because the russians would
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invaded ukraine. many are telling us they are not surprised, many had predicted it and the question still remains, where will this all end and when will it end? let s get another perspective. we can speak now to sir tony brenton, the former uk ambassador to moscow, were you surprised by this? yes, i didn t think this would happen so i m feeling a bit foolish this morning. putin was much more cautious than i expected to be and the fact that this looks like a full scale invasion of ukraine with no clear statement about how much he s going to end up occupying and what going to do with it is even more worrying. what can one say because you mock one can say a couple of things. first of all, we didn t take putin seriously enough and that is one lesson from this, i guess, that, if we had been more responsive in the negotiations which he imposed on us than we might have avoided this. the second thing i would say is that, yes, there is now