party he is also a member of parliament foreign affairs committee and to his right andrew adair a lawyer and political consultant based here in berlin and washington gentlemen to both of you welcome mr nick let me start with you today the german foreign minister told the united states basically to mind its business its own business and to stay out of european and german energy policy is that what you would say to the u.s. congress or the u.s. president. i think this is a very unfortunate development i think the reactions that we have seen throughout in germany today across party lines are pretty unified it's an issue of national sovereignty it's an issue of our general reservation about unilateral sanctions with 3rd party effect. and it is potentially a big liability for the transatlantic relations. and she was quite a controversial project in germany but i think if there's one thing that this move will achieve that everyone in germany will unite behind this project if it's made a factor of national sovereignty as opposed to aggressive outside intervention it would do you think that that

the pipeline probably yes ok i want to expand the story across the atlantic we're joined now by andrew adair he's a lawyer and a political consultant based here in berlin and washington he joins us from our studio in the u.s. capitol tonight andrew you've been listening to this discussion about china and russia and germany give us their take the temperature force in washington at the moment what are they saying in washington about what's happening right here in europe. well brandt's in terms of the north stream issue that you just raised. there is a bill now on the president's desk 'd that requires him requires the administration to impose sanctions on the ship building company that is completing the pipeline so they're really if congress has basically thrown a hail mary pass if you will at the very last minute to try to disrupt this pipeline and they've made it a mandatory sanction so it's really the ball is really in the president's court to push forward on that it's really the question is how soon will he sign the bill and then after he signs it how soon will the administration act that t

helpful framing of this debate andrius nick member of the german parliament the bundestag and andrew adairus lawyer and political consultant gentlemen to both of you thank you so i thank you. for 18 years the german military has been present in afghanistan often helped by local civilian employees they served and still service translators and as guards but that work has made them targets of the telly but nearly 800 have come to germany with the help of a special program but even here they still don't feel safe we visited one of them in the german city of lights. kinds is on his way to walk he's been employed at the foreigners registration office in the city of lights for almost easy he helps refugees finds them places to live and arranges down in courses he himself arrived in germany 5 years ago as focus on course after work was a great success in my life i 1st had to learn the language i had to integrate i have to fulfill certain requirements for the job i now do. after. that home in afghanistan was a locally hiatt civilian for the chairman he was an entire protests the sixty's he accompan