rise in tensions between moscow and washington here's a former british ambassador to russia sir tony brentons obviously lots of sound and fury going on at the moment, but both sides are, to some extent, being quite careful. the americans will already have factored in that the russians are going to throw out ten of their diplomats in response to the expulsions a couple of days ago. and it's not clear what more the russians are going to do, although they have asked the us ambassador to leave, which raises the temperature. all this has taken place in the background of biden prior to the sanctions, having suggested a summit later in the year. and even today after the announcement of the sanctions, the russians were still looking genuinely at that. so there is a way out of this, in the sense that, if the summit takes place, then there's a thing for people to aim at where they can begin to get tensions down. but i have to say, this is as noisy and destructive as i've ever seen it. there are 80,000 russian troops on the borders of ukraine at the moment. and the temptation, if things really do slide