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provide both a carrot and a stick. we ve heard a lot about the stick the past few weeks. basically since the concerns about russia s intentions came into focus just before the holidays. the united states has been telegraphing that it is prepared to take sanctions measures, for example, that it hasn t before. but i guess on the other side of this, you need to give russia something where i think we all remember russia has come out with a series of demands of nato that it s going to bring to these meetings. they ve published those demands as well and they re nonstarters. we ve heard this much from officials, from blinken on down. blinken on friday called them gaslighting. the united states needs to show up at these meetings with something that russia might want, something historically that we know russia is very interested in. his arms control talks, specifically focused on anti-missile defense deployments. so it appears the play going into this is to try to offer russia one of these thin
saying this will amount to a new unsahratian. a senior official held a phone call with reporters and was pressed on this several times for clarification. they said, look, essentially russian forces being present in that region is nothing new. that russian forces have been in the region since 2014. now what they said also was that what they re going to do is continue to assess the situation overnight. try to get a better handle on exactly what russia is going to do and depending on their actions and the coming hours and days, the u.s. is going to take appropriate measures. but, of course, a reminder too that earlier today something that was announced were these sanctions measures against the region that we re talking about here. those are, of course, not the same as you mentioned as the broader sort of package of sanctions that the u.s. has been talking about. but these are targeted sanctions and sort of first steps that we have seen president biden take. this was by way of executive
commons and house of lords tomorrow, these changes allow us to pursue putting s allies in the uk with the full backing of the law, beyond doubt, or legal challenge. that statement issued sunday evening in london. these changes will be effectively streamlining the sanctions mechanism to ensure above all anything else that it is legally safe from challengers, because the worst thing would be if one of those affected by sanctions measures or property seizure would take the british government to court and the british government to court and the british government to court and the british government was to lose. clearly they don t want that situation, so they will change the law to make sure that it doesn t happen. that breaking news out of london on sunday evening. russian police have again moved to break up anti war protests in many cities. 3,500 people have been arrested in protests across russia, according to the russian news agency, tass. that includes 1,700 in moscow and 750 in st pet