donna kane is across developments for us, joining us from berlin. so why has this agreement taken so long to reach dominic you get a sense of how difficult disagreement has been in the woods. the 1st thing that the check minister who is chairing this meeting said he said it felt like a plotline from mission impossible. and yet, he says, referring to that movie franchise, they arrived asset. the crux of it is that the differing sides in this, the, you long played out soccer of one country against another. they've agreed that there should be a cap of $180.00 euros per megawatt hour of gas, which should kick in from the 15th of february of next year. which won't apply to all trades, but which will be then it will be linked to the price of liquefied natural gas as well. and it is meant to provide some degree of safety net safety valve as it were to the e. u to the 27 countries. remember, the issue here was that you had 3 countries who really weren't sure about as a told dutch, the germans, the austrians. and then many countries in the southern mediterra

so many questions being asked donna kane for inside story in berlin. i want to take a quick look now at where far right party is have made gains across europe. italy is near the georgia, maloney became prime minister there after september election leading the most right to in government since mussolini. the german far right party, the f d that badly in elections. and main bands still has about 20 percent support in the east. frances far rise, increase its number of m. p is nearly tenfold after jane's legislative elections becoming the main opposition. now poland, nationalist law and justice party has been in government since 2015 with some of its right when policy is leading to disputes with the you and sanctions. and hungary is a right wing, prime and aesthetic to or than one is also election in april. while the far right sweden, democrats hold the balance of power there with a minority coalition, government dependent on their support. ah, oh, let's not bring him our guests in berlin. we have been heiress. he is the found an editor in chief of b. any

donna kane has more from berlin. news that a member of staff for the buddhist national, densely federal intelligence service, was arrested, emerged on thursday evening in berlin. but the arrest took place on wednesday. we know that property belonging to this person arrested has been searched as has the property and the offices of a 2nd person. the or forty's investigating this case, who said they don't want to go into too much more detail. they want to wait until the attorney general has been able to assemble a case against this particular individual. it is also worth making clear that the federal intelligence services said that the system suspect has been arrested on suspicion of treason that it's a state secret that is involved here. and the head of the federal intelligence service has said that in russia, he believes that germany is dealing with an actor. in his words, which has shown that his unscrupulous and prepared to use violence, the person arrested is now in custody. and clearly the authorities are building a case as far as they can, the founder of collapse crypto currency exc