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so far he did mention another drum and chancellor and glen merkel, but i'm sure we'll have our very on your go to school. know if he was there and asked about this merkel. so he will tell us more about that when we get him right. yeah, it's fascinating, much of states are that from the russian president this the day 2 of the cf 2 of the organization in us. then i thank you. marina, thanks very much for the conversation further with the thomas hall, but now all throughout wal correspondent joining us here live on our team to national thomas. i know you were listening right that, to the russian president, you're getting stressed that by nato allowing key of to strike deep inside russia or it does mean direct involvement. the believe the worried about facing a direct response. would you still think the western political establishment believes approved in is bluffing? well, i don't know whether they think that putting this bluffing, but they escalating more and more. because even after putting said this already some days ago, that again i'm at tech target and especially with ethic. m. s. r