it's a very interesting to see those messages from adelina burbock and his relationship between her and tony blink. and how you as counterpart or develop in the months ahead. remember, she's only in office for a couple of months, but really pinning her flag very closely to the u. s. line on a whole range of issues. did other your chief international editor, richard walker, reporting from the munich is security conference. richard, thank you. now the news out of the russia ukraine border leaves ukrainian experts wondering what could be next. washington correspondent, oliver silent, spoke with a ukrainian citizen. living in the united states worried that he might lose his homeland. he may be 5000 miles away. but vitale desi, jenko is still close to his homeland, to ukraine, who was harrington turned cra, did everything come on the right, a manager in new york, those elk a restaurant? the crisis back home is the number one topic for him and his colleagues. and toys me a lot, but it's not these as faint promotional, and now you get to know those pieces are news every day. does not help want

on the other hand, the german foreign minister adelina burbock, she is with her check slovak and austrian counterparts in kiev today. or what can they offer ukraine and then a barack is in kiss and in easton ukraine today and tomorrow. and i didnt, babcock has said before, departure that ukraine sovereignty must not be violated and that she is probably going to stress again today that germany will a continued support of ukraine. what many people don't realize is that germany has been one of ukraine's biggest economic supporters of recent years. and that is a message that the german government is beginning to try and sell more loudly in recent days as well. and the dom government has given almost 2000000000 years to ukraine since 2014. and of course, by going together with a counterparts from other european countries. another in our barrack also wants to signal to ukrainian leaders the message. the west is standing united. no dividing, that is the message that the german government, including all of shots, are sending in these days of crisis negotiations are political correspondent, nina h

conference, the us, germany speaking from the same playbook, the, the german foreign minister, adelina burbock. today she offered clarity about what sanctions would look like in the event of a russian invasion of you, great, ticklish b. i thought shannon, but i, we in germany are prepared to pay a high economic price. therefore, for me and for us for all options are on the table just including nordstrom to so rigid barrack mentions shutting down the nord stream to pipeline as a possible part of sanctions. there is something that the united states wants, but that is something that her boss, the german chance o shots, he has been reluctant to say to go that far. what did you make of of that considering she actually said it today? yeah, that's right. i mean, adelina bab bought was as explicit as, as will have sholtes has been vague in recent weeks. i've schultz is simply not gone to the, to that stage of saying explicitly that he would shut down gold stream to if there were military action by the russians against you. craig will though he has hinted at it between the lines alanine and alina. bab,

you know, we've heard again and again, including from adelina burbock yesterday. it was quoted earlier in the program saying, this is not a ukraine crisis. this is a rush crisis, because it's, it wouldn't be solved simply by ukraine say, renouncing any aspiration to join nato. in fact, what russia is looking to do against alton bag, the secretary general of nato, said this in his remarks. russia is looking to roll back the entire security order in europe to return to a kind of a sphere of influence system. like we knew in the cold war by the way, without some of the mechanisms that kept that conflict, at least sort of low level during the cold war. so he addressed that point to saying we are ready for substantial dialogue that would increase, increase the security of all. and with that, he also means russia and then he outlined essentially 3 offers that not only nato, but also the u. s. is made. if you remember, the u. s. also gave a written response to russia's demands some maybe 10 days ago, 2 weeks ago in which it laid out the same proposals. so they would be 1