i think the sanctions package that has had almost immediate effect in some respects with the ruble crashing. russian blocked from the international financial system. all the state banks are cut off. of course, we re seeing without sanctions the american and european companies are making a quick exodus from the russian market. i think the big challenge for us and for the ukrainians, too, is to get more information to the general public and russia. those that watch state tv are not yet enaware of the scope of the russian operation, the fact that they re actively bombing one of everybody s favorite cities, kyiv. if we can use social media and other methods to get real information in to the russian audience, that could accelerate the process of undermining putin s base. neil: get the word out.
who sort of watch state tv and scratch their heads. you know, the other thing that will happen because of this, the protesters when they see state tv carrying that message, they know of course that it s false. it makes them less willing, i would imagine, to enter negotiations with suleiman and the existing government, because they re not going to trust them. if the government is trying to build some sort of confident, what they re doing on state tv is undercutting that very strategy. reporter: yeah, many egyptians have actually called state tv gobel s tv after the nazis propaganda minister. the feeling is the government is playing it both ways. on the one hand they re willing to engage in dialogue. on the other, the state media churning out these absurd stories about israeli training of the activists in the square, and that sort of thing.