clark thank you very much indeed and again we have to apologize for the sound quality here and alexander merkeris an expert on international law says ukraine's government has shown a lot of patients with process that would have been disposed of if they were in any european or american city. the authorities who show 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 of the european city or in any. state the authorities would be planned and clear the street to go the government to sack to do great restraint in this matter is to protest is. encouraged by the opposition leaders have not. been taking the situation this is been the way through this whole crisis to begin with the opposition leaders who crocheted i mean extraordinary sense of entitlement insisting. that things be done the way they want to be done. that is not the way to achieve concrete noise or to negotiate. and let's now go back to studio and with me here is. our news editor a