All right, we are live with Alexander McCurice in London.

Alexander, how you doing?

I'm doing very well and delighted to be here again on this live stream.

And by goodness, we've got a lot to discuss.

What should we talk about today, Alexander?

Well, there's a few minor conflicts going on in

various parts of the world Venezuela you know where some news from Ukraine nothing

important yeah a lot of a lot of stuff to go over absolutely including including

I mean the ECB finally I think think, killing off Ursulis.

And that's his 140 billion euro plan.

They refuse to backstop it.

They refuse to backstop it.

Exactly.

And that's decisive.

But, I mean, there are other things going on, which are at least as important.

Yeah.

Carry on.

EU member states are also saying that they won't provide what they call blank check guarantees.

I don't understand, Alexander.

I thought that Ursula is assuring all the EU member states that this is completely legal,

seizing Russian forces.

It's completely legal, she says.

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