an asset freeze on the ballot russian president previously he said by if they'd put sanctions on mr luker shanker then it would have put more pressure on the already embattled president and he could well have adopted a bunker mentality and not cooperated at all in the future i'm going to merkel the german chancellor said that it was difficult negotiations that got them to this point but referred to it as a big step forward in terms of minsk reaction to the sanctions well they're less than impressed as you would imagine they've said that no nation would've had to the demands that were being made of it by the european union and that they may well and they will sorry i beg your pardon react with sanctions of their own in turn to this move. saying sions have been imposed as a punitive measure for the belorussian failure to comply with a set of ultimatum requirements that not a single self respecting sovereign state would ever meet. well moscow which has a key role to play in the future of belarus due to the close and historical ties between the 2 nations they've said they don't agree with pla

be joined on the program by a political as gilbert dr a cobra good to see you how do you think mr luker will respond to being blacklisted by the e.u. do you think he's going to feel under pressure to negotiate with the opposition. well you know already has met with opposition leaders civil war. we were discussing . before photographs of these people most of these days the question is what anybody. says that they want to recognize the loose that's a monster and that is completely unacceptable preciously and largely seemingly is not against him this is not that it's against the wall we are here is accident against the. west. in this respect what. is putting in these at least the stooping is what they were doing in 2014 in respect to. here it was that's what we'll see and this will be for a different we're expecting over. secretary. merely. leaders within the e.u. with the revised. do you think this code galvanized the protests in belarus. i don't think it's going to have a great impact on the. protests or such you have already been using all possible means of support or. or reading or. al