well xander mccurry is an expert on international law says ukraine's government has shown a lot of patience with protests that would have been dispersed if they were in any european or american city. the authorities have shown extraordinary patience in this matter i mean you heard some of the other commentators. discussing this there is absolutely no conceivable way that this sort of situation would have been allowed to happen in any other european city or in any or in anybody's united states the authorities found out and did speak to long ago the government exactly great distributed its matter did to test is. encouraged in this by the opposition leaders have not and that if you take the security of this is being wiped away through this whole crisis right to begin with you've got the opposition leaders who crocheted i mean extraordinary sense of entitlement insisting on the things to be done the way they want it to be done. that is not the way to achieve compromise or to negotiate. it's not discuss this with berlin based journalist christophe forstall he's joining us live here now on r.t. k