it'll also set the tone for future us. jovan relations as al jazeera is alan fischer reports in power for 16 years. anglo merkel wasn't afraid of confronting american presidents. she stepped down his german chancellor in december. we'll get it kind of getting replaced by all of schultz. it meant a fresh start and us german relations. something welcomed by a man who saw a job biden's election as a good thing. we had to give the 1st on for a while. we feared that for the previous government under president trump, it may no difference whether a country with a democracy and a friendly ally or not. it is now clear what binds us together. it's class. have been that when it comes to international affairs, i think they very much come from the same mindset. they both believe in the transatlantic alliance, also and wash up basically the position is very clear, very similar. there should be no change orders in europe. it's not the 1st time that you have met the spoke on the fringes of the g. 20 summit in room and october, when shoals was finance minister and virtually after he became chancellor.

picture of the american assessments of what could happen, but the russians are saying it's nonsense. alan fischer reporting from washington d. c. we thank you for that update. so presupposing russia does invade ukraine at some point, then what happens? well, let's have a look at the maps. as we know they share around 2000 kilometers of border, which means ample opportunity for russia to make some sort of incursion. and let's not forget it already. has the gray regions which are put in there, the separatist areas of a done nets, the hands crimea in the south. it all ready means moscow has a foothold in the country. and we know there's all this, these varying levels of russian troop deployment, in all of these occasions. i don't know that none of this in who information, but it really is worth remembering what the map actually looks like. now the c s i s that is the center for strategic and international studies. i think tank based in washington has been running a few likely scenarios. an existing geography plays a big pot. for example, i'm just going to draw to sin, sort of roughly here, this is t